✦ LIBER ✦
Natural Religion, Common Notions, and the Study of Religions: Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1583-1648)
✍ Scribed by Roger A. Johnson
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 519 KB
- Volume
- 24
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0048-721X
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
While the seminal role of Lord Herbert in the early modern study of religion has long been recognized, his legacy has most often been mistakenly identified with 'natural religion'. This article provides evidence for Lord Herbert's repudiation of 'natural religion' and its inconsistency with his own theory of common notions. It also identifies those basic tools still used in the study of religions which emerged as unintended by-products of his theory of common notions.