Anthony Bliss was a clergyman of the Church of England, and the vicar of Portsmouth.
Deism
Origins
Deus (Deus otiosus)
Logos § Ancient Greek philosophy
Neoplatonism § The One
Chinese theology § Confucian theology
Averroism
Socinianism
Unmoved mover
Watchmaker God
Movements
18th-century England and France
Christian Deism
Pandeism (in Asia) (and Christianity) (criticism)
Spinozism
Cult of the Supreme Being
Theophilanthropy
Deistic evolution
Natural theology
Congregationalism in the US § Disinterested benevolence
Polydeism
Notable figures
Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
Matthew Tindal
Voltaire
Charles Blount
Thomas Chubb
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Paine
Guido von List
Cayetano Ripoll
False equivalencies
Ceremonial deism
Moralistic therapeutic deism
Opposition
Catholic Church
John Leland
Edward Stillingfleet § Philosophical controversy
Anthony Bliss
John Jackson
Johann Georg Hamann
Charles Jennens
Religious thought of Edmund Burke
Richard Blackmore § Non-epic writing
James McGready
Valentin Ernst Löscher
Continental prophecies § Themes
Friedrich Julius Stahl
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Bliss was a member of Worcester College, Oxford and was awarded the degrees of B.A. in 1719, M.A. in 1722, and D.D. in 1733.[1] He was ordained in 1722 and was the Vicar of Portsmouth from 1724 until his death in 1738.[2] As a theologian, he wrote against Thomas Chubb's idea that reason alone is sufficient in theology.[3][4][5]
His books included
A Sermon Preach'd in the Parish-church of Portsmouth, on Saturday January XXX. 1725[6]
A Letter in Vindication of God's Prescience of Contingencies against the Objections of Mr. Fancourt, in His Late Essay on Liberty, Grace, and Prescience (1730):[7] a reply to Samuel Fancourt's Essay on Liberty, Grace, and Prescience
Observations on Mr. Chubb's Discourse Concerning Reason (1731):[8] a reply to Thomas Chubb's Discourse Concerning Reason
Remarks on the plea, and the defence of the plea, for human reason (1733):[9] a reply to John Jackson's A Plea for Humane Reason and A Defense of the Plea for Human Reason: Being a Reply to a Book Entitled, A Plea for Divine Retribution
Calumny and Defamation Displayed: or, a Brief essay on a new theological question, viz. Whether charity be a damning heresy? In a letter to the Reverend Mr. Du-Gard of Fareham in Hampshire (1735):[10] William Du-Gard responded with Calumny and Defamation Retorted: Or, Some Brief Animadversions Upon an Erroneous and Dangerous Position, Lately advanced and defended from the Press[11][12]
Bliss' son, also named Anthony Bliss, was a member of Queen's College, Oxford and was awarded the degree of B.A. in 1751.[13] He was the Vicar of Meriden and the incumbent of Castle Bromwich, both in the County of Warwick. On his death in 1815 his estate passed to James Kittermaster.
^Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Bliss, Anthony (1)" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
^"Person: Bliss, Antony (1720 - 1739) CCEd Person ID: 17879". Clergy of the Church of England Database. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
^Herick, James A. (1997). The Radical Rhetoric of the English Deists: The Discourse of Skepticism, 1680–1750. University of South Carolina Press. p. 146. ISBN 9781570031663. Retrieved 29 April 2019 – via Google Books.
^Gillett, E.H. (18 April 1874). "God in Human Thought: Or, Natural Theology Traced in Literature, Ancient and Modern, to the Time of Bishop Butler". Scribner, Armstrong & Company. Retrieved 18 April 2019 – via Google Books.
^"The Gentleman's Magazine, Or, Monthly Intelligencer". Vol. 2. September 1733. p. 481. Retrieved 30 April 2019 – via Google Books.
^"King Charles the First". anglicanhistory.org. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
^Bliss, Anthony (18 April 2019). "A Letter in Vindication of God's Prescience of Contingencies, Upon the Principles of Reason: Against the Objections of Mr. Fancourt, in His Late Essay on Liberty, Grace, and Prescience. By Anthony Bliss, A.M. Vicar of Portsmouth". John Gray. Retrieved 18 April 2019 – via Google Books.
^Bliss, Anthony (18 April 2019). "Observations on Mr. Chubb's Discourse Concerning Reason: Wherein His Attempt to Prove, that Reason Either Is, Or Ought to Be, a Sufficient Guide in Matters of Religion, is Consider'd; ... By Anthony Bliss, A.M. Vicar of Portsmouth". Samuel Wilmot, Oxford: and sold. Retrieved 18 April 2019 – via Google Books.
^Horne, Thomas Hartwell (1827). "A Catalogue of the Library of the College of St. Margaret and St. Bernard, commonly called Queen's College". Queen's College, Cambridge. p. 195. Retrieved 29 April 2019 – via Google Books.
^Bliss, Anthony (18 April 2019). "Calumny and Defamation Displayed: or, a Brief essay on a new theological question, viz. Whether charity be a damning heresy? In a letter to the Reverend Mr. Du-Gard ... The second edition". John Oswald. Retrieved 18 April 2019 – via Google Books.
^Du-Gard, William (1735). "Calumny and Defamation Retorted: Or, Some Brief Animadversions Upon an Erroneous and Dangerous Position, Lately advanced and defended from the Press". G. Strahan. Retrieved 29 April 2019 – via Google Books.
^Krause, Johann Gottlieb (30 May 1735). "Neue Zeitungen von gelehrten Sachen" [New Newspapers about Scholarly Things] (in German). Leipzig: Johann Gottlieb Krause. p. 379. Retrieved 30 April 2019 – via Google Books.
^Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Bliss, Anthony (2)" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
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