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Lecture 4: The Warburtonian Moment
The dominant intellectual figure in mid eighteenth-century England was William Warburton, later bishop of Gloucester. Warburton earned the amused contempt of Hume and Gibbon, which fed his reputation as an ogre of supposed anti-Enlightenment insolence and vituperation. Nevertheless, this is far from the whole story. Warburton’s Divine Legation of Moses – the most controversial book of its era – was ambiguously situated, and Warburton’s relationship to the Enlightenment was complicated and involved.
Date:
9 February 2023, 17:00
Venue:
Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details:
South Schools
Speaker:
Professor Colin Kidd (Wardlaw Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews)
Organising department:
Faculty of History
Part of:
The James Ford Lectures in British History 2023 - Peculiarities of the English Enlightenment: Ancients, Moderns and Pagan Pasts
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Belinda Clark
