Testament: Memoir of the Thoughts and Sentiments of Jean Meslier. By Jean Meslier. Translated by Michael Shreve. Preface by Michel Onfray
Jean Meslier (1664–1729), under pressure from his parents (cf. p. 39), trained for the priesthood. After ordination he served for 40 years as a parish priest in the country. When he died he left three manuscript copies of his Testament among his possessions. Voltaire published a heavily expurgated e...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2010
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 61, Issue: 2, Pages: 857-862 |
| Review of: | Testament (Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2009) (Pailin, David A.)
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| Summary: | Jean Meslier (1664–1729), under pressure from his parents (cf. p. 39), trained for the priesthood. After ordination he served for 40 years as a parish priest in the country. When he died he left three manuscript copies of his Testament among his possessions. Voltaire published a heavily expurgated edition of it in 1761. This distorted Meslier’s ideas so as to make them appear to be largely in agreement with Voltaire’s own deist and anticlerical position. Meslier’s own position was much more radical. A complete edition of Meslier’s text did not appear in print until the middle of the nineteenth century. Unfortunately, it was based on a defective copy. The present translation is based on modern critical editions (cf. pp. 25–6). |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flq072 |