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The works of the right reverend William Warburton, D.D., Lord Bishop of Gloucester

with an introduction by Gavin Budge

（The collected works of William Warburton）

Thoemmes Continuum, 2005

set : hrd
v. 1
v. 2
v. 3
v. 4
v. 5
v. 6
v. 7
v. 8
v. 9
v. 10
v. 11
v. 12
v. 13

Uniform Title: Works. 2005

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University of Tokyo, Komaba Library駒場図

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volumes 1-12: The works of the right reverend William Warburton, D.D., Lord Bishop of Gloucester. A new edition in twelve volumes, to which is prefixed a Discourse by Way of General Preface, containing some account of the Life, Writings, and Character of the author, by Richard Hurd, D.D., Lord Bishop of Worcester, London, 1811.

"This edition published by Thoemmes Continuum, 2005"---T.p.verso

Originally Printed by Luke Hansard & Sons, near Lincoln's-Inn Fields, for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the strand, 1811.

Contents of Works

v. 1-6. The Divine legation
v. 7. The alliance between church and state
v. 8. Julian ; The doctrine of grace
v. 9-10. Sermons and discourses ; A charge to the clergy of the Diocese of Gloucester ; a discourse on the nature and end of the sacrament of the Lord's supper
v. 11-12. Controversial tracts ; A Letter...concerning literary property ; Correspondence with Doctors Middleton and Lowth
v. 13. Tracts, by Warbuton and a Warburtonian not admitted into the collections of their respective works, London, 1789

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Warburton's major work "The Divine Legation of Moses" aimed at being a definitive reply to the arguments of freethinkers such as William Collins and John Toland, which cast doubt on the intellectual validity of religious metaphors. His work thus played a central role in that late eighteenth-century reappraisal of the value of metaphor which paved the way for Romanticism, influencing continental linguistic theorists such as Rousseau, Condillac, Michaelis, Lichtenberg and Hamann, as well as British thinkers such as Robert Lowth and Thomas Reid. In connection with his thinking about language, Warburton plays an important role in Jacques Derrida's seminal work of philosophy/critical theory Of Grammatology, since his ideas about the nature of hieroglyphics represent an alternative to Rousseau's phonocentrism. Warburton's "The Divine Legation of Moses" and his earlier "The Alliance between Church and State" represented the major intellectual justification of the Anglican church establishment, and as such Warburton's thinking is currently being re-evaluated by historians influenced by the work of J.C.D. Clark. Warburton's studies of the development of early religious ideas were a major in

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