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The Life and Times of Dr George de Benneville (1703-1793)

One of the most interesting (to my mind anyway) of the eighteenth-century Universalists was George de Benneville. Here is a link to a brief internet biography about him. You will see that it cites the Life and Times of Dr George de Benneville (1703-1793) by Alfred D. Bell as the only biography. Well, for years I kept an eye out for this - nothing. Then the internet came along and the wonderful ABE Books transformed the search for second hand books - but still no luck. Then about two months ago I found it! It wasn't cheap but, after all these years, it was a must have. Anyway, in the hope that there will be others out there who would be interested in reading about this remarkable pioneer of liberal religion below is a link to a pdf scan I have just made of it. The book is long out of print and I trust I'm not infringing copyright in doing this - if I am let me know and I'll take it down - but in the interests of making George de Benneville's name known again here it is for your delectation.

A PDF copy of The Life and Times of Dr George de Benneville (1703-1793)
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My name is Andrew James Brown. I’m a philosophically/theologically inclined writer with deep sympathies towards Imaoka Shin’ichirō's understanding of a creative, inquiring, free and liberative religion/spirituality (jiyū shūkyō 自由宗教), Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism, Konkokyo, Christian non-theism, D. G. Leahy’s “thinking now occurring for the first time”, a Lucretian inspired religious naturalism, new materialism and Kyoto School philosophy; also a photographer, cyclist, walker and jazz bass player. In addition to this, I’m the minister of a small, liberal, free religious community in Cambridge (UK)

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Steven Rowe said…
The good news for those looking to read this , is that it was never renewed, and thus is public domain.
29 January 2010 at 16:49
Andrew James Brown said…
Thanks SC Universalist for finding that out. Very good news indeed - download away folks!

Warmest wishes to you all.

Andrew
29 January 2010 at 17:38
Anonymous said…
How strange and lucky for me. I was looking for this book for the first time today, and here you posted it only two days ago.
30 January 2010 at 17:09
Andrew James Brown said…
Cool - glad to have been some help.

A
30 January 2010 at 21:48
Lizard Eater said…
Am late to the party, but thank you so much for this. I'm working on a paper right now on universalism during the Reformation, and there's some invaluable stuff in here for working backwards from American Universalism.
1 October 2010 at 05:33
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