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Often appears with: warburton · the problem of evil and theodicy · scripture and its interpretation · religious persecution and toleration · religious controversy · immortality of the soul
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Voltaire summarizes Bishop Warburton’s claim that the Pentateuch lacks belief in the soul’s immortality and that Moses’ mission was therefore divine, then criticizes his reasoning and character.
OF WARBURTON'S PARADOX ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL Warburton, editor and commentator of Shakespeare and Bishop of Gloucester, making use of English freedom, and abuse of the custom of hurling insults at one's adversaries, has composed four volumes to prove that the immortality of the soul was never announced in the Pentateuch, and to conclude from this same proof that Moses' mission is divine. Here is the precis …