Priestley seeks to found his apologetics on precisely those arguments which were regarded by apologists as leading inevitably to atheism, Spinozistic pantheism or anti-Christian deism. A sincere believer, he adopts all the premisses of traditional deism and declares that, by means of their coherence, he will protect Christianism from the deleterious effects of the Enlightenment.
CLIL theme: 3129 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Philosophie -- Philosophie moderne