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ENGLISH DEISM BOOK LIST
Primary Sources:
Bacon, Francis. The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon, ed. John M. Robertson. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1905.
Bentley, Richard. Eight Boyle Lectures on Atheism. British Philosophers and Theologians of the 17th & 18th Centuries Series. London: T. Parkhurst and H. Mortlock, 1692-1693; reprint, New York: Garland Publishing, 1976.
Blount, Charles. Miscellaneous Works. British Philosophers and Theologians of the 17th & 18th Centuries Series. London: 1695; reprint, New York: Garland Publishing, 1979.
Bolingbroke, Henry Saint-John. The Philosophical Works. Vol. 1. British Philosophers and Theologians of the 17th & 18th Centuries Series. London: David Mallet, 1754-1777; reprint, New York: Garland Publishing, 1976.
________. The Philosophical Works. Vol. 2. British Philosophers and Theologians of the 17th & 18th Centuries Series. London: David Mallet, 1754-1777; reprint, New York: Garland Publishing, 1976.
________. The Philosophical Works. Vol. 3. British Philosophers and Theologians of the 17th & 18th Centuries Series. London: David Mallet, 1754-1777; reprint, New York: Garland Publishing, 1976.
________. The Philosophical Works. Vol. 4. British Philosophers and Theologians of the 17th & 18th Centuries Series. London: David Mallet, 1754-1777; reprint, New York: Garland Publishing, 1976.
________. The Philosophical Works. Vol. 5. British Philosophers and Theologians of the 17th & 18th Centuries Series. London: David Mallet, 1754-1777; reprint, New York: Garland Publishing, 1976.
Browne, Thomas. Religio Medici. The Harvard Classic Series, Vol. 3. n.c.: n.p., c. 1643; reprint, New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1909.
Butler, Joseph. Analogy of Religion. Reprint, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1869.
Chubb, Thomas. The Comparative Excellence and Obligation of Moral and Positive Duties, 1730 and A Discourse Concerning Reason,1731. British Philosophers and Theologians of the 17th & 18th Centuries Series. London: for J. Roberts, 1730, and T. Cox, 1731; reprint, New York: Garland Publishing, 1978.
Collins, Anthony. A Discourse of Free Thinking, 1713 and A Philosophical Inquiry, 1717. British Philosophers and Theologians of the 17th & 18th Centuries Series. London: for J. Morphew, 1713, and for R. Robinson 1717; reprint, New York: Garland Publishing, 1978.
________. A Discourse of the Grounds and Reasons of the Christian Religion. British Philosophers and Theologians of the 17th & 18th Centuries Series. London: 1724; reprint, New York: Garland Publishing, 1976.
Eliot, Charles, ed. English Philosophers: Locke, Berkely, Hume. The Harvard Classic Series, Vol. 37. New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1910.
Gildon, Charles. The Deist's Manual. British Philosophers and Theologians of the 17th & 18th Centuries Series. London: for A. Roper, 1705; reprint, New York: Garland Publishing, 1977.
Herbert, Edward Herbert, Lord of Cherbury. The Ancient Religion of the Gentiles, and Causes of Their Errors Considered. London: John Nutt, 1705; reprint unknown.
________. Dialogue Between a Tutor and His Pupil. British Philosophers and Theologians of the 17th & 18th Centuries Series. London: for W. Bathoe, 1768; reprint, New York: Garland Publishing, 1979.
________. The Autobiography of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, ed. Sidney Lee. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1886.
Hobbes, Thomas. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury. London: John Bohn, 1839; reprint.
________. Hobbes Selections, ed. F. Woodbridge. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930.
________. Leviathan. Blackwells Political Texts Series. Reprint, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, n.d.
Hume, David. The Natural History of Religion, ed. H. E. Root. London: A. & C. Black, 1956.
________. Hume's Ethical Writings, ed. Alasdair MacIntyre. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1965.
Leland, John. A View of the Principal Deistical Writers. Vol. 1. British Philosophers and Theologians of the 17th & 18th Centuries Series. London: for B. Dod, 1756-1757; reprint, New York: Garland Publishing, 1977.
________. A View of the Principal Deistical Writers. Vol. 2. British Philosophers and Theologians of the 17th & 18th Centuries Series. London: for B. Dod, 1756-1757; reprint, New York: Garland Publishing, 1977.
________. A View of the Principal Deistical Writers. Vol 3. British Philosophers and Theologians of the 17th & 18th Centuries Series. London: for B. Dod, 1756-1757; reprint, New York: Garland Publishing, 1977.
Locke, John. Essays in Human Understanding, ed. P. H. Nidditch. Oxford: Oxford Press, 1975.
Middleton, Conyers. A Free Inquiry into the Miraculous Powers. British Philosophers and Theologians of the 17th & 18th Centuries Series. London: for R. Mamby and H.S. Cox, 1749; reprint, New York: Garland Publishing, 1976.
Morgan, Thomas. The Moral Philosopher. British Philosophers and Theologians of the 17th & 18th Centuries Series. London: 1737; reprint, New York: Garland Publishing, 1977.
Shaftsbury, Anthony, Earl of. Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, etc.. Vol. 1, ed. John M. Robertson. Gloucester, Massachusetts: Peter Smith, 1963.
________. Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, etc.. Vol. 2, ed. John M. Robertson. Gloucester, Massachusetts: Peter Smith, 1963.
Sherlock, Thomas. The Tryal of the Witness, 1743 and The Use and Intent of Prophecy, 1728. British Philosophers and Theologians of the 17th & 18th Centuries Series. London: for J. & H. Pemberton, 1743, and J. Pemberton, 1728; reprint, New York: Garland Publishing, 1978.
Tindal, Matthew. Christianity as Old as the Creation. British Philosophers and Theologians of the 17th & 18th Centuries Series. London: 1730; reprint, New York: Garland Publishing, 1978.
Toland, John. Christianity Not Mysterious. The Philosophy of John Locke Series. London: 1696; reprint, New York: Garland Publishing, 1984.
________. Amyntor. London: John Darby, 1699.
________. A Collection of Several Pieces. Vol. 1. British Philosophers and Theologians of the 17th & 18th Centuries Series. London: printed for J. Peele, 1726; reprint, New York: Garland Publishing, 1977.
________. A Collection of Several Pieces. Vol. 2. British Philosophers and Theologians of the 17th & 18th Centuries Series. London: printed for J. Peele, 1726; reprint, New York: Garland Publishing, 1977.
Warburton, William. The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated. British Philosophers and Theologians of the 17th & 18th Centuries Series. London: for F. Gyles, 1738-1765; reprint, New York: Garland Publishing, 1978.
Woolston, Thomas. The Works of Thomas Woolston, 5 vols. London: for J. Roberts, 1733.
Secondary Sources:
Berman, David. A History of Atheism In Britain: From Hobbes to Russell. London: Croom Helm, 1988.
Brown, Colin. Christianity and Western Thought. Vol. I. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1990.
Cassirer, Ernst. The Philosophy of the Enlightenment. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1951.
Collins, James. God in Modern Philosophy. Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1959.
Craig, William Lane. The Historical Argument for the Resurrection of Jesus During the Deist Controversy. Lewiston, England: Edwin Mellen Press, 1985.
Elwell, Walter, ed. Evangelical Dictionary of Theology. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1984. S.v. "Deism," by M. H. MacDonald.
Farrar, A. S. A Critical History of Free Thought in Reference to the Christian Religion. New York: D. Appleton, 1882.
Ferre, Fredrick. Basic Modern Philosophy of Religion. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1989.
Gay, Peter, ed. Deism: An Anthology. Princeton: Van Nostrand, 1968.
Hodge, Charles. Systematic Theology. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1986.
Latourette, Kenneth Scott. A History of Christianity: Reformation to the Present. Revised ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1975.
Lemay, J. A. Leo, ed. Deism, Masonry, and the Enlightenment: Essays Honoring Alfred Owen Aldridge. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1987.
Leyden, W. van. Hobbes and Locke. London: Macmillan, 1981.
Livingston, James C. Modern Christian Thought from the Enlightenment to Vatican II. New York: Macmillan, 1971.
Noack, Lucius. Die Freidenker in der Religion, oder die Repraesenten der Religioesen Aufklaerung in england, Frankreich und Deutschland. Bern: Jent und Reinert, 1853-1855.
Orr, John. English Deism: Its Roots and Its Fruits. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1934.
Stephen, Leslie. History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century. Vol. I. London: Smith, Elder, & Company, 1876.
________. History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century. Vol. 2. London: Smith, Elder, & Company, 1876.
Strong, A. A. Systematic Theology. Old Tappan, New Jersey: Judson Press, n.d.
Torrey, Norman L. Voltaire and the English Deists. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1930; reprint, n.c.: Archon Books, 1967.
Westfall, Richard S. Science and Religion in Seventeenth Century England. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1958.
Yolton, John. John Locke and the Way of Ideas. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968.
Journal Articles:
Mandivenga, E. C. "Revealed Religion: Lord Herbert's Deistic Attitude." Journal of Theology for Southern Africa 4 (September 1973): 54-58.
O'Higgins, J. "Hume and the Deists: A Contrast in Religious Approaches." The Journal of Theological Studies 22 (October 1991): 479-501.
Pailin, David A. "Herbert of Cherbury and the Deists." The Expository Times 94:7 (April 1983): 196-200.
Walsh, Clement. "A Note on the Meaning of "Deism."" Anglican Theological Review 38 (1956): 160-165.
Winnett, A. R. "Were the Deists "Deists?"" Church Quarterly Review 161 (January-March 1960): 70-77.