| The Fair Haven: Samuel Butler Contributor(s): Streatfeild, R. a. (Introduction by), Butler, Samuel (Author) |
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ISBN: 1979911223 ISBN-13: 9781979911221 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $5.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Philosophy - History |
| Series: Classic Samuel |
| Physical Information: 0.24" H x 8.5" W x 11.02" (0.63 lbs) 116 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Fair Haven by Samuel Butler. The Fair Haven is an ironical defense of Christianity, which under the guise of orthodox zeal undermines its miraculous foundations. To find the germ of The Fair Haven we should probably have to go back to the year 1858, when Butler, after taking his degree at Cambridge, was preparing himself for holy orders by acting as a kind of lay curate in a London parish. Butler never took things for granted, and he felt it to be his duty to examine independently a good many points of Christian dogma which most candidates for ordination accept as matters of course. The result of his investigations was that he eventually declined to take orders at all. One of the stones upon which he then stumbled was the efficacy of infant baptism, and I have no doubt that another was the miraculous element of Christianity, which, it will be remembered, was the cause of grievous searchings of heart to Ernest Pontifex in Butler |