Background
Peter Browne was born about 1665 in County Dublin, Ireland, not long after the Restoration.
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Things Divine and Supernatural Conceived by Analogy With Things Natural and Human (Classic Reprint)
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Peter Browne
Peter Browne was an Irish divine and bishop of Cork and Ross.
Education
He entered Trinity College, Dublin, in 1682, and after ten years' residence obtained a fellowship.
Career
In 1699 he was made provost of the Trinity college, and in the same year published his Letter in answer to a Book entitled "Christianity not Mysterious, " which was recognized as the ablest reply yet written to Toland. It expounds in germ the whole of his later theory of analogy. In 1710 he was made Bishop of Cork and Ross, which post he held till his death in 1733. In 1713 he had become somewhat notorious from his vigorous pamphleteering attack on the fashion of drinking healths, especially "to the glorious and immortal memory. " His two most important works are the Procedure, Extent, and, Limits of the Human Understanding (1728), an able though sometimes captious critique of Locke's essay, and Things Divine and Supernatural conceived by Analogy with Things Natural and Human, more briefly referred to as the Divine Analogy (1733). The doctrine of analogy was intended as a reply to the deistical conclusions that had been drawn from Locke's theory of knowledge. He died on the 27th of August 1735.
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Things Divine and Supernatural Conceived by Analogy With Things Natural and Human (Classic Reprint)
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Things Divine and Supernatural Conceived by Analogy With Things Natural and Human (Classic Reprint)
Views
Browne holds that not only God's essence, but his attributes are inexpressible by our ideas, and can only be conceived analogically. This view was vigorously assailed as leading to atheism by Berkeley in his Alciphron (Dialogue iv. ), and a great part of the Divine Analogy is occupied with a defence against that criticism. The bishop emphasizes the distinction between metaphor and analogy; though the conceived attributes are not thought as they are in themselves, yet there is a reality corresponding in some way to our ideas of them. His analogical arguments resemble those found in the Bampton Lectures of Dean Mansel.
Personality
Browne was a man of abstemious habits, charitable disposition, and impressive eloquence.
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Anglican
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Bishop of Cork and Ross