Rady Przyiacielskie M Odemu Czcicielowi Nauk I Filozofii Etc
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The Sacred Contagion
Author: Paul-Henri Thiry (Baron d'Holbach)
language: en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date: 2019-10-30
"Religion has always had its critics", writes the Baron d'Holbach (1723-89), "but few have dared to attack it at the source." In The Sacred Contagion, this fiercest of atheism's propagandists argues that religious influence is always harmful to morality, society, and government. All previous attempts to reform religion have simply pruned the tree, giving it new vitality. The root of the problem is the idea of God itself; people who believe in God or gods will necessarily act in certain ways, which will be destructive for themselves and for others. Those who believe in the revelation of a God or gods will necessarily become enslaved to the will of the gods' ministers and interpreters, and any ruler who empowers the priesthood in his kingdom will end up as their first slave.In this book, a key figure in the radical Enlightenment calls for an abrupt turn from the supernatural to the natural. This return to natural morality, hand in hand with the secularization of government, is the only thing that can bring real happiness to individuals, nations, and humanity in general. While it's true that Christians tend to pay little attention to their Bible, the same could be said for for atheists and freethinkers and their own intellectual tradition. While the Baron d'Holbach is sometimes paid lip service as an important atheist thinker, few of his works have been translated into English. This book is presented as a contribution to this important heritage.
Geographia Sacra
Author: Samuel Bochart
language: en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date: 2023-07-18
Geographia Sacra is a seminal work of biblical geography written in Latin in the seventeenth century. The book presents a detailed historical and geographical overview of the Holy Land, examining the travels of the Israelites and the locations of important religious sites. Villemandy and Bochart's work is a fascinating and valuable resource for scholars of history, geography, and religion. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Jerusalem and Babylon
Although many studies have been devoted to Augustine's City of God and its most important theme, viz. the antithesis between the civitas Dei and the terrena civitas,until now no consensus has been reached concerning the sources of this doctrine. Was Augustine decisively influenced by Manichaeism, by (Neo)Platonism, the Stoa or Philo, by the Donatist Tyconius? Or should we look in another direction and refer to preceding Christian, Jewish, and especially to archaic Jewish-Christian traditions? This lucidly written books opens with a survey of the research carried out so far on the aim, structure and central theme of the City of God. Chapter 2 analyzes the essentials of Augustine's life, of his City of God, and of his doctrine of the two cities. Making use of one of the recently discovered letters of Augustine in Chapter 3 the author describes the City of God as an apology and as a catechetical work. Chapter 4 provides an investigation into the possible sources of Augustine's doctrine of the two cities in Manichaeism, in (Neo)Platonism, the Stoa and Philo, and in the works of Tyconius. The idea of two antithetical cities proves to be present most clearly in writings in which, closely related to Jewish thinking, archaic Christian concepts occupy an important place. In a final chapter some pertinent remarks are made on Jewish and Jewish-Christian influences on pre-Augustinian Christianity in Africa.