Table of Contents

David L. Wykes & Isabel Rivers: Introduction
1: David L. Wykes: Joseph Priestley, Minister and Teacher
2: W. H. Brock: Joseph Priestley, Enlightened Experimentalist
3: James Dybikowski: Joseph Priestley, Metaphysician and Philosopher of Religion
4: Martin Fitzpatrick: Joseph Priestley, Political Philosopher
5: G. M. Ditchfield: Joseph Priestley and the Complexities of Latitudinarianism in the 1770s
6: Alison Kennedy: Historical Perspectives in the Mind of Joseph Priestley
7: Jenny Graham: Joseph Priestley in America

About the Author

Isabel Rivers is Professor of Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Culture, Queen Mary, University of London, and Co-Director, Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies. David L. Wykes is Director, Dr Williams's Library, London, and Co-Director, Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies.

Reviews

This volume acheives its aims admirably.
*The Historical Association*

it will be an essential next step in understanding a towering, wide-ranging, and too often underestimated figure in the English Enlightenment and, indeed, in the following century.
*R. K. Webb, Enlightenment and Dissent*

[A] welcome book... all the papers merit careful study.
*Alan P. F. Sell, Journal of Ecclesiastical History*

All chapters in this anthology, Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian, provide rich material...for anyone interested in the unfolding dynamic of the European Enlightenment, especially the fascinating complex of science and religion period. Hopefully the anthology will go some little way to restoring the intellectual reputation of a richly deserving figure whose arguments...are as relevant today as they were over two hundred years ago when Priestley advanced them.
*Michael R. Matthews Science and Education*

...Readable and perceptive...[a] stimulating and insightful volume...
*David A. Pailin The Journal of Theological Studies*

'Priestley was a deeply religious man and a believer in the power of faith as a force for good in the world.' These words of Alison Kennedy speak for the whole of the life and teaching of Priestley. Every chapter in ths unique book bears out their truth. It is a book that will inspire and encourage all who read it.
*Peter Godfrey, Faith and Freedom*

All the chapters in this anthology provide rich material for school and university teachers, and they constitute simply a 'good read' for anyone interested in the unfolding dynamic of the European Enlightenment, especially the fascinating complex of science and religion in the period. Hopefully the anthology will go some little way to restoring the intellectual reputation of a richly deserving figure.
*Newsletter of the International History, Philosophy, and Science Teaching Group*

The volume achieves its aims admirably
*W. A. Speck, History*