Six Discourses on the Miracles of Our Saviour, and Defences of His Discourses

Download or read book Six Discourses on the Miracles of Our Saviour, and Defences of His Discourses written by Thomas Woolston and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discourses written in this book were penned by Thomas Woolston, an English theologian who died in prison after being convicted for the views that he authored here. The book begins with the first discourse: The Moderator between an Infidel and an Apostate. The infidel intended was Anthony Collins, who had maintained in his book alluded to that the New Testament is based on the Old, and that not the literal but only the allegorical sense of the prophecies can be quoted in proof of the Messiahship of Jesus; the apostate was the clergy who had forsaken the allegorical method of the fathers. Woolston denied absolutely the proof from miracles, called in question the fact of the resurrection of Christ and other miracles of the New Testament, and maintained that they must be interpreted allegorically, or as types of spiritual things.