Review of William Paley, Natural Theology, edited with an introduction and notes by Matthew D. Eddy and David Knight: New York: Oxford University Press, 2006, xxxvii + 342 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-280584-3 [Book Review]

Sophia 48 (1):99-101 (2009)
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Matthew D. Eddy and David Knight’s new edition of William Paley’s Natural Theology deserves to become the standard scholarly edition of what is a historically, theologically, and philosophically important work, despite a certain neglect of philosophical issues on the part of the editors.

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