God and Thomas Hobbes
Atheists were even rarer and more obscure in seventeenth-century England than communists are in the modern United States. The scarcity of atheists, however, rather enhanced than restricted the term as an expression of loathsomeness and evil beyond accurate description. Those who seemed obviously wro...
| Publicado no: | Church history |
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| Tipo de documento: | Electronic/Print Artigo |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
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Cambridge University Press
[1960]
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| Em: |
Church history
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| Classificações IxTheo: | KAG Reforma |
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Volltext (doi) |
| Parallel Edition: | Recurso Electrónico
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| Resumo: | Atheists were even rarer and more obscure in seventeenth-century England than communists are in the modern United States. The scarcity of atheists, however, rather enhanced than restricted the term as an expression of loathsomeness and evil beyond accurate description. Those who seemed obviously wrong-headed on matters of the most serious import, and who were yet exasperatingly hard to prove wrong, must be in the power of some unnatural evil. Thus Thomas Hobbes was denounced as an atheist; and the accusation was as honest and almost as irrational as the accusation heard recently in many parts of the Southeast that the NAACP is communistic. |
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| ISSN: | 0009-6407 |
| Obras secundárias: | Enthalten in: Church history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3162212 |