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A Course Of Lectures On Subjects Connected With The Corruption, Revival, And Future Influence Or Genuine Christianity - Softcover

William Johnson Fox

 
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A Course Of Lectures On Subjects Connected With The Corruption, Revival, And Future Influence Or Genuine Christianity by William Johnson Fox is a polemical collection formed from a sequence of lectures delivered at the Unitarian Chapel in Parliament Court, Artillery Lane, Bishopsgate Street in 1818 and prepared for press afterwards. The work surveys the history and corruption of Christian doctrine and practice, tracing an antichristian trajectory from Church-of-Englandism to broader ecclesiastical tyranny, and advocates Unitarianism as a purer form of Christian doctrine. Fox argues that the gospel has been corrupted by ecclesiastical power, creeds, secrecy, and alliance with temporal authority, and that true religion should rest on liberty of conscience and personal interpretation of scripture. The volume critiques creeds, religious establishments, and sectarian controversy, while championing civil and religious liberty, toleration, and the universal diffusion of genuine Christianity. It also discusses war and the prospect of human perfectibility under a purified gospel, stressing education, reason, and the gradual triumph of truth.

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