1. Brush Up On Butler revised 14/February/04. Joseph Butler. 16921752 Joseph Butler. 1692-1752. Anglican theologian and philosopher. Born a Presbyterian, joined Church of and later influence of Joseph Butler (1692-1752), author of Fifteen Sermons http://sun1.sjfc.edu/~dwhite/butler

revised 14/February/04 Joseph Butler Anglican theologian and philosopher. Born a Presbyterian, joined Church of England as a youth; rector of Stanhope (1725-40); clerk of the closet to Queen Caroline (1735), to King George II (1746); bishop of Bristol (1738); dean of St. Paul's (1740); bishop of Durham (1750). Author of Fifteen Sermons (1726) and of The Analogy of Religion Image based on a portrait by John Fayram at Auckland Castle, residence of the bishop of Durham. Site Map INTRODUCTORY ARTICLES Fact Sheet Internet Encyclopedia Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century British Philosophers A GUIDE to BUTLER STUDIES Bibliographies Additional Passages Mentioning Butler Butler on the Web LIFE Portraits and Paintings Places Associated Full Chronology WORKS Editors Sources Outline of the Argument INFLUENCE Eighteenth Century Nineteenth Century Twentieth Century Church of England THE BISHOP BUTLER HISTORICAL SOCIETY is a forum for exchange of bibliographical and historical information relating to the life, times, work and later influence of Joseph Butler (1692-1752), author of Fifteen Sermons (1726) and the Analogy of Religion (1736). Intended as a basic reference system to support philosophical, theological, literary and historical studies of Butler's life, thought and influence by academics, students and anyone else with a serious interest. All points of view are welcome as long as the focus is on specific passages in Butler's work or in the literature about him.

2. Joseph Butler [Internet Encyclopedia Of Philosophy] The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Joseph Butler (16921752). Table of Contents(Clicking on the links below will take you to that part of this article). http://www.iep.utm.edu/b/butler.htm

Joseph Butler (1692-1752) Table of Contents (Clicking on the links below will take you to that part of this article) Life Human Nature as Made for Virtue Human Life as in the Presence of God This Life as a Prelude to a Future Life ... Bibliography Life Joseph Butler was born into a Presbyterian family at Wantage. He attended a dissenting academy, but then converted to the Church of England intent on an ecclesiastical career. Butler expressed distaste for Oxford's intellectual conventions while a student at Oriel College; he preferred the newer styles of thought, especially those of Locke, Shaftesbury and Hutcheson, leading Hume to characterize Butler as one of those "who have begun to put the science of man on a new footing, and have engaged the attention, and excited the curiosity of the public." . Butler benefited from the support of Samuel Clarke and the Talbot family. In 1719, Butler was appointed to his first job, preacher to the Rolls Chapel in Chancery Lane, London. Butler's anonymous letters to Clarke had been published in 1716, but a selection of his Rolls sermons (1726) was the first work published under his name. These sermons are still widely read and have held the attention of secular philosophers more than any other sermons in history. Butler moved north and became rector of Stanhope in 1725. Only at this point is his life documented in any detail, and his tenure is remembered mainly for the Analogy of Religion Analogy Butler has become an icon of a highly intellectualized, even rarefied, theology, "wafted in a cloud of metaphysics," as Horace Walpole said. Ironically, Butler refused as a matter of principle to write speculative works or to pursue curiosity. All his writings were directly related to the performance of his duties at the time or to career advancement. From the Rolls sermons on, all his works are devoted to pastoral philosophy.

3. Joseph Butler [Internet Encyclopedia Of Philosophy] Joseph Butler (16921752) Table of Contents. Life. Human Nature as Made for Virtue. Human Life as in the Presence of God. This Life as a Prelude to a Future Life. The World as a Moral Order. The Christian Scriptures as a Revelation Life. Joseph Butler was born into a Presbyterian family at Wantage http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/b/butler.htm

Joseph Butler (1692-1752) Table of Contents (Clicking on the links below will take you to that part of this article) Life Human Nature as Made for Virtue Human Life as in the Presence of God This Life as a Prelude to a Future Life ... Bibliography Life Joseph Butler was born into a Presbyterian family at Wantage. He attended a dissenting academy, but then converted to the Church of England intent on an ecclesiastical career. Butler expressed distaste for Oxford's intellectual conventions while a student at Oriel College; he preferred the newer styles of thought, especially those of Locke, Shaftesbury and Hutcheson, leading Hume to characterize Butler as one of those "who have begun to put the science of man on a new footing, and have engaged the attention, and excited the curiosity of the public." . Butler benefited from the support of Samuel Clarke and the Talbot family. In 1719, Butler was appointed to his first job, preacher to the Rolls Chapel in Chancery Lane, London. Butler's anonymous letters to Clarke had been published in 1716, but a selection of his Rolls sermons (1726) was the first work published under his name. These sermons are still widely read and have held the attention of secular philosophers more than any other sermons in history. Butler moved north and became rector of Stanhope in 1725. Only at this point is his life documented in any detail, and his tenure is remembered mainly for the Analogy of Religion Analogy Butler has become an icon of a highly intellectualized, even rarefied, theology, "wafted in a cloud of metaphysics," as Horace Walpole said. Ironically, Butler refused as a matter of principle to write speculative works or to pursue curiosity. All his writings were directly related to the performance of his duties at the time or to career advancement. From the Rolls sermons on, all his works are devoted to pastoral philosophy.

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7. Berkshire History: Biographies: Joseph Butler, Bishop Of Bristol & Durham (1692- Joseph Butler, Bishop of Bristol (16921752) Born 1692 at Wantage, BerkshireBishop of Bristol Bishop of Durham Died 16th June 1752 at Bath, Somerset http://www.berkshirehistory.com/bios/jbutler.html

RBH Home Articles Legends Churches ... Mail David Joseph Butler, Bishop of Bristol Born: 1692 at Wantage, Berkshire Bishop of Bristol Bishop of Durham Die d: 16th June 1752 at Bath, Somerset Not only the most distinguished name in the list of Bishops of Bristol and Durham, but one of the most honoured in the English Church. He was born, the youngest of eight children, of Dissenting parents, at Wantage "What an application of it," continues Mr. Blunt, who quotes the passage, "would have suggested itself to Tucker, could he have been walking in that self-same garden on the 31st October 1831." It was then that the palace was destroyed by the rioters. In 1747, Archbishop Potter died, and the primacy was offered to Butler; but he declined it, saying, as the tradition of his family reports it, that it was "too late for him to try to support a falling Church." In 1750 he was translated to Durham, where he set about repairing and improving the two episcopal residences at Durham and at Auckland, appointed three days in every week for public hospitalities, and was most munificent in the distribution of his large income : but his health rapidly declined, and on the 16th June 1752, he died at Bath, where he had removed for the sake of the waters. He was buried in his former cathedral at Bristol, on the south side of the choir.

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9. ChurchRodent: Butler, Joseph effectively against deism. Yet none of them proved more effectivethan Bishop Joseph Butler (16921752). His monumental work, The http://tatumweb.com/churchrodent/terms/butler.htm

Search: Butler, Joseph During the early stages of the Renaissance, when intellectuals (for example, Voltaire) aimed their critical disregard at the Church, several men wrote effectively against deism. Yet none of them proved more effective than Bishop Joseph Butler (1692-1752). His monumental work, The Analogy of Religion , virtually ended the debate for thinking people. Skirmishes continued for years, but after Butler it was clear that all the fundamental issues had been settled. ChurchRodent : Rich Tatum's Glossary of Christian History Based in-part on Bruce Shelley's Christian History in Plain Language

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13. Society, Philosophy, Philosophers, B: Butler, Joseph Joseph Butler, 16921752. English philosopher, theologian and Anglicanbishop. Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web. http://www.combose.com/Society/Philosophy/Philosophers/B/Butler,_Joseph/

Top Society Philosophy Philosophers ... Butler, Joseph Related links of interest: Society:Philosophy:History of Philosophy:Early Modern Society:Philosophy:Ethics Society:Religion and Spirituality:Christianity:Theology Brush Up on Butler - Resource site including email list, extensive biographical and bibliographical information, and notes on his influence on later thinkers. History of Ideas: Joseph Butler - Article by David McNaughton, made available by Thoemmes Press. Discusses this philosopher's teachings and influence at length. Joseph Butler Notes - Short reflections on reading Butler, by John S. Moore. Joseph Butler: Of Personal Identity - Text of this appendix to Butler's 1736 The Analogy of Religion. Joseph Butler - Article by David E. White from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Joseph Butler, 1692-1752. English philosopher, theologian and Anglican bishop. Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web. Submit a Site Open Directory Project Become an Editor The combose.com directory is based on the Open Directory and has been modified and enhanced using our own technology.

14. Why Social Engineers Are Invariably Dangerously Wrong Note from A Study Of Our Decline by Philip Atkinson Why Social Engineers AreInvariably Dangerously Wrong A Warning From Joseph Butler (16921752). http://www.ourcivilisation.com/nature/willeyb.htm

Note from A Study Of Our Decline by Philip Atkinson Why Social Engineers Are Invariably Dangerously Wrong A Warning From Joseph Butler The following is from " The Eighteenth Century Background " by Basil Willey (1940), the chapter entitled ' Butler As A Moralist greatest happiness ' of mankind. 'Some of great and distinguished merit' (Shaftesbury?), he writes, Three Sermons p 99 by Joseph Butler Why is the 'greatest happiness' principle (which for good utilitarians comprised the whole of the law and the prophets) a terrible mistake? Because, in Butler's view, we simply do not possess, in our present imperfect state, sufficient clairvoyance for us to be certain about the consequences of our actions, 'nor do we know what we are about, when we endeavour to promote the good of mankind in any ways but those he [God] has directed'. Shocking actions might be performed with a view to producing an overbalance of happiness. Such ultimate objectives as the happiness of mankind are beyond our limited scope, and we may easily, in attempting to pursue them, become moral monsters. Our safety lies in following the God-given instinct which condemns violence, injustice, and falsehood, and approves benevolence towards some (e.g. kindred, friends, or countrymen) rather than towards others; whereas with the more grandiose aims we may easily be led into perpetrating the former, and neglecting the latter. 'The happiness of the world', he concludes, 'is the concern of him who is the Lord and the proprietor of it'; our concern is only with conduct dictated by the sense of duty. Or as Dr Broad expresses it: God might be conceived to be a utilitarian 'were his moral character merely that of benevolence; yet ours is not so'. 'And though it is of course our duty,' Butler adds

15. Joseph Butler Oxford Clarendon Press, 1969. ¶ CONTENTS Joseph Butler (16921752) The Rhetoricof Restraint. . Joseph Butler, 1692-1752. Bishoprick 7 (1931) 3-15. http://www.english.umd.edu/englfac/WPeterson/ELR/bibliographies/documents/31.htm

Joseph Butler This bibliography was compiled by William S. Peterson for his Web site English Literature and Religion and was uploaded 19 February 2003. Alden, J. "Bishop Butler." Biblical Repository Allen, M. Four Hundred Questions on Butler's Analogy Alspach, Mary Virginia. "The Influence of Bishop Butler on 19th Century Literary Criticism." M.A. thesis, University of Iowa, 1929. Analytical Commentary on Butler's Analogy Arnold, Matthew. "Bishop Butler and the Zeitgeist." Contemporary Review Baker, Albert E. Bishop Butler . London: SPCK, 1923. Baker, Frank. "John Wesley and Bishop Joseph Butler: A Fragment of John Wesley's Manuscript Journal 16th to 24th August 1739." Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society 42 (May 1980): 93-100. Bartlett, Thomas. Memoirs of the Life, Character, and Writings of Joseph Butler . London: John W. Parker, 1839. Beck, Lewis White. "A Neglected Aspect of Butler's Ethics." Sophia Bernard, J. H. "The Predecessors of Bishop Butler." Hermathena "Bishop Butler Reviewed in the Light of Modern Thought."

16. JOSEPH BUTLER Joseph Butler. Butler, Joseph (16921752), English divine and philosopher, bishopof Durham, was born at \Vantage, in Berkshire, on the 18th of May 1692. http://57.1911encyclopedia.org/B/BU/BUTLER_JOSEPH.htm

JOSEPH BUTLER BUTLER, JOSEPH In March 1715 he entered at Oriel College, Oxford, but for some time found it uncongenial and thought of migrating to Cambridge. But he made a close friend in one of the resident fellows, Edward Talbot, son of William Talbot, then bishop of Oxford, and afterwards of Salisbury and Durham. In 1718 he took his degree, was ordained deacon and priest, and on the recommendation of Talbot and Clarke was nominated preacher at the chapel of the Rolls, where he continued till 1726. It was here that he preached his famous Fifteen Sermons (1726), including the well-known discourses on human nature. In 1721 he had been given a prebend at Salisbury by Bishop Talbot, who on his translation to Durham gave Butler the living of Houghton-le-Skerne in that county, and in 1725 presented him to the wealthy rectory of Stanhope. In 1726 he resigned his preachership at the Rolls. For ten years Butler remained in perfect seclusion at Stanhope. He was only remembered in the neighborhood as a man much loved and respected, who used to ride a black pony very fast, and whose known benevolence was much practised upon by beggars. Archbishop Blackburne, when asked by Queen Caroline whether he was still alive, answered, He is not dead, madam, but buried. In 1733 he was made chaplain to Lord Chancellor Talbot, elder brother of his dead friend Edward, and in 1736 prebendary of Rochester. In the same year he was appointed clerk of the closet to the queen, and had to take part in the metaphysical conversation parties which she loved to gather round her. He met Berkeley frequently, but in his writings does not refer to him. In 1736 also appeared his great work, The Analogy of Religion.

17. Butler's Analogy Butler s Analogy. Joseph Butler (16921752) wrote his infamous Analogy of Religion,Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature, in 1736. http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/b/ed_butlersanalogy.html

Butler's Analogy Joseph Butler (1692-1752) wrote his infamous Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature , in 1736. Butler was born and educated in England as a Presbyterian but became ordained in the Church of England in 1718, and eventually became the Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral and later Bishop of Durham. He studied Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson, philosophers who all influenced his writing. In his Analogy , Joseph Butler discusses his views on morality, and how under normal circumstances, humans are designed to follow moral lives. The work impressed Hume and Wesley and became widely read first in Scotland during the end of the eighteenth century, and made its way to Oxford, and eventually spread to American universities and colleges during the early part of the nineteenth century when many such institutions were heavily influenced by Scottish philosophy. Dr. Benjamin Rush, one of Dickinson's founders, who was educated at Edinburgh University, certainly read the A nalogy when following a long career to the study of medicine and science, began later in life to search for a unity between nature and God. He found some answers to his questions in Butler's

18. Zaadz Quotes By Author - Joseph Butler Quotes 1. To us probability is the very guide of life. ~ Joseph Butler (16921752)English theologian, bishop of Bristol from Preface to Analogy. http://www.zaadz.com/quotes/authors/joseph_butler/

19. Christian Quotation Of The Day Index Nathaniel J. (Judson) (18221887) 7/20/99 Butler, Joseph (1692-1752) Analogyof Religion, to the constitution and course of nature, The 1859 9/30/02 http://cqod.gospelcom.net/cqodndaa.htm

Christian Quotations of the Day Author Index (A-B) Current closing date on index: 8/1/03 Note: The index is all done by hand, so when you find errors or broken links here or in the archives, please drop me a note Note: Many of the text links are to the marvelous full-text collection called The Christian Classics Ethereal Library Note: Many of the links to bios are either to the marvelous Glimpses pamphlets and the Christian History daily files archived in the Christian History Institute 's pages here at GospelCom, or to James Kiefer's excellent Calendar of Christian Historical Biographies in the Christia Library Author Index Guide (by last name): A - B You are here! C - F G - K L - M N - S ... T - Z Adams, Robert Hammond Adams, Robert MacColl "Amateur Ministry" [ text "Of Rice and Men" [ text "Receiving One Another" [ text Adler, Mortimer J. (Jerome) bio Philosophers Who Believe , Kelly James Clark, ed., Inter-Varsity Press, Illinois: 1993 Albright, William Foxwell Yahweh and the Gods of Canaan; a historical analysis of two contrasting faiths , Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y.: 1968

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