Reason, the Only Oracle of Man E-Book

Ethan Allen

• Herausgeber: Ethan Allen
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

Ethan Allen (1738-1789) was a farmer, businessman, land speculator, philosopher, writer, lay theologian, and American Revolutionary War patriot, hero, and politician. He is best known as one of the founders of the U.S. state of Vermont, and for the capture of Fort Ticonderoga early in the American Revolutionary War along with Benedict Arnold.

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Reason, The Only Oracle of Man; or A Compendius System of Natural Religion.

by

Ethan Allen

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Introduction.

Preface.

Chapter i.

The Duty of Reforming Mankind from Superstition and Error and the Good Consequences of it

Of the Being of a God

The Manner of Discovering the Moral Perfections and Attributes of God

The Cause of Idolatry, and the Remedy of it

Chapter ii.

Of the Eternity of Creation

Observations of Moses’s Account of Creation

Of the Eternity and Infinitude of Divine Providence

The Providence of God Does Not Interfere with the Agency of Man.

Chapter iii.

The Doctrine of the Infinity of Evil and of Sin Considered

The Moral Government of God as Incompatible with Eternal Punishment

Human Liberty, Agency and Accountability, Cannot Be Attended with Eternal Consequences, Either Good or Evil

Of Physical Evils.

Chapter iv.

Speculation on the Doctrine of the Depravity of Human Reason.

Containing a Disquisition of the Law of Nature as it Respects the Moral System, Interspersed with Observations on Subsequent Religions

Chapter v.

Argumentative Reflections on Supernatural and Mysterious Revelation in General.

Containing Observations on the Providence and Agency of God, as it Respects the Natural and Moral World, With Strictures on Revelation in General.

Chapter vi.

Of Miracles

A Succession of Knowledge, or of the Exertion of Power in God, Incompatible with His Omniscience or Omnipotence, and the Eternal and Infinite Display of Divine Power Forecloses Any Subsequent Exertion of it Miraculously

Rare and Wonderful Phenomena No Evidence of Miracles Nor are Diabolical Spirits Able to Effect Them, or Superstitious Traditions to Confirm Them, Nor Can Ancient Miracles Prove Recent Revelations.