The Works of Bishop Butler by David E. White - 9781580462105

The Works of Bishop ButlerAuthor(s): David E. White\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United States\nImprint: University of Rochester Press\nISBN-13: 9781580462105, 978-1580462105\nSynopsis\nThe complete works of Joseph Butler, newly edited, with an introduction, notes, glossary, and an analytic index.\n\nThis edition of Bishop Joseph Butler's [[tel]] complete works is the first newly edited version to appear in a century, and is the only one to include a single, analytic index to the whole works. The editor's introduction presents Butler's ethics and philosophy of religion as a single, comprehensive system of pastoral philosophy and surveys the vast influence Butler exerted, especially in the nineteenth century.\n\n Included here are all fifteen published sermons from Butler's tenure as Preacher at the Rolls Chapel, the only sermons in English routinely studied by secular ethicists to this day; six additional sermons on the great public institutions; his Charge.