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Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Jefferson's Bible, Hume's Guide

LISTENIn our Enlightenment Now course, zooming again this evening, we take up a number of questions prompted by Robertson's Very Short IntroductionTwo in particular interest me:

  • The "Enlightenment Bible" may not have undermined revelation (30), but what about the Jefferson Bible?
  • What do you think of David Hume's view that Christians "supported their elevation of the next world above the present with a morality of self-denial," and that this is antithetical to what is naturally "useful and agreeable"?
Jefferson thought Jesus naturalized was a "sublime" moral teacher... (continues)

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