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THE ORIGIN of the MUGGLETONIANS. My Object In
247 THE ORIGIN OF THE MUGGLETONIANS. By ALEXANDER GORDON, M.A. My object in writing this paper is to fmnish an authentic sketch of the Origin of the Muggletonians, a people so obscure that I may even call them unknown. Say to ninety-nine per sons out of a hundred that So-and-so is a Unitarian, and you immediately suggest doubts more or less unfavourable to the salvation of So-and-so's soul. But say, instead, that So-and-so is a Muggletonian, and you raise no theological idea whatever; you simply excite a natural amusement that anyone can be found who is odd enough to identify himself with so uncommon a name. Some time ago I had occasion to examine some papers at the Public Record Office connected with this subject, and on mentioning to one of the officials the purpose of my search, "Muggletonians!" said he, "I thought the leading authority was' Pickwick' ! " * Indeed the name has served the turn of wits, from the period of the Restoration downwards. I might refer to Tom Brown's droll and scandalous invention of the marriage of Dr. Titus Oates to one Mrs. Margaret Wells, a Muggleto nian widow; t I might quote Allan Ramsay's good-humoured • "Muggleton is an ancient and loyal borough, mingling a zealous advocacy of Christian principles with a devoted attachment to commercial rights." -Post· humous Papm's oj the Pickwick Club, chap. vii. t "Since the saviour of the nation has join'd his saving faculty with .. damning talent (for you are to understand his lady is a Muggletonian, and thosa people pretend to have the power of damnation), we may now expect to see a. -
Religious Materialism in Early Enlightenment Britain, 1640-1715
Flesh Redeemed: Religious Materialism in Early Enlightenment Britain, 1640-1715 By Samuel Robinson A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley Committee in charge: Professor Ethan Shagan, Chair Professor Jonathan Sheehan Professor James Grantham Turner Summer 2017 © Samuel Robinson 2017 All Rights Reserved 1 Abstract Flesh Redeemed: Religious Materialism in Early Enlightenment Britain, 1640-1715 by Samuel Robinson Doctor of Philosophy in History University of California, Berkeley Ethan Shagan, Chair This dissertation examines how early modern Britons came to deem the material world as worthy of attention, care, and redemption. It traces a broad current of philosophical and theological speculation regarding material bodies that began in the 1640s. In a series of case studies, I chart how a range of formulations regarding the nature of corporeal bodies and matter increasingly served as a resource for theological discourse, philosophical debate, and popular belief in the late seventeenth century. I argue that heterodox religious ideas in the mid-seventeenth century served as an engine of change, driving early modern Britons to rethink how divinity, the soul, and the material world interacted. By focusing on the relationship between divinity and earthbound corporeality, this dissertation reframes heterodox religious ideas, often relegated to the historical margins, as in fact generative of modern conceptions of the human body and the material world. In the following study, I trace the material linkages that connected religious belief and early modern philosophies of embodied substance. The project follows changing early modern interest in the material world as a range of thinkers reconfigured the perceived interaction and interpellation of spiritual, corporeal, and divine substances. -
UC Berkeley Electronic Theses and Dissertations
UC Berkeley UC Berkeley Electronic Theses and Dissertations Title Flesh Redeemed: Religious Materialism in Early Enlightenment Britain, 1640-1715 Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/83f664ww Author Robinson, Samuel Publication Date 2017 Peer reviewed|Thesis/dissertation eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California Flesh Redeemed: Religious Materialism in Early Enlightenment Britain, 1640-1715 By Samuel Robinson A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley Committee in charge: Professor Ethan Shagan, Chair Professor Jonathan Sheehan Professor James Grantham Turner Summer 2017 © Samuel Robinson 2017 All Rights Reserved 1 Abstract Flesh Redeemed: Religious Materialism in Early Enlightenment Britain, 1640-1715 by Samuel Robinson Doctor of Philosophy in History University of California, Berkeley Ethan Shagan, Chair This dissertation examines how early modern Britons came to deem the material world as worthy of attention, care, and redemption. It traces a broad current of philosophical and theological speculation regarding material bodies that began in the 1640s. In a series of case studies, I chart how a range of formulations regarding the nature of corporeal bodies and matter increasingly served as a resource for theological discourse, philosophical debate, and popular belief in the late seventeenth century. I argue that heterodox religious ideas in the mid-seventeenth century served as an engine of change, driving early modern Britons to rethink how divinity, the soul, and the material world interacted. By focusing on the relationship between divinity and earthbound corporeality, this dissertation reframes heterodox religious ideas, often relegated to the historical margins, as in fact generative of modern conceptions of the human body and the material world.