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Article: THE RADICAL RHETORIC OF THE ENGLISH DEISTS: THE DISCOURSE OF SKEPTICISM, 1680-1750.(Review)(Brief Article)

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THE RADICAL RHETORIC OF THE ENGLISH DEISTS: THE DISCOURSE OF SKEPTICISM, 1680-1750. By James A. Herrick. Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1997. Pp. ix + 245. $29.95.

Late in this study Herrick summarizes 18th-century deistic arguments in this way: "The Deists propagated their corrosive approach to the Bible among a popular audience by employing a variety of distinctive rhetorical tactics, including--in addition to argument--ridicule, lying, disguise, profanity, insult, selection, and forgery" (206). The work's unsophisticated level of rhetorical analysis is well indicated by this hodgepodge; what we really are given are summaries of the arguments of some ...

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