On the power of natural reason: a transcript and commentary of two letters from John Simson to Archibald Campbell in 1736.
This article presents two letters from the Glaswegian theologian John Simson (1667–1740) to his former student Archibald Campbell (1691–1756), professor of ecclesiastical history at St. Andrews as of 1733. After Simson's condemnation for heresy in 1727–1728, Simson was in regular contact with Campbe...
| Publicado en: | History of European Ideas Vol. 47; no. 4; pp. 561 - 573 |
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