THE DEVIL'S PULPIT. CONTAINING TWENTY-THREE ASTRONOMICO-THEOLOGICAL DISCOURSES BY THE REV. ROBERT TAYLOR, WITH A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE.
Richard Carlile (London). First Edition, 1831. Very scarce. 365 pages. Brown cloth boards with paper label on spine, measuring 6.75" x 4.5". Volume one of this work was the only volume published during the author's lifetime. One of the earliest and most severe examples of Christian Disobedience during the 19th century. In this work, author Rev. Robert Taylor proposes that God and the Devil are one and the same. He was a major proponent of the "Christ Myth Theory" which stated that the historical Jesus Christ did not exist. On the remote chance that Christ did exist; he had nothing to do with Chrsitianity. Taylor created the Christian Evidence Society to promote these teachings while attacking the Anglican liturgy and the Establishment for what he called its "Pagan creed". Contents Include: Raising the Devil; The Star of Bethlehem; The Holy Ghost; Judas Vindicated; ; Saint Thomas and Lectures on Freemasonry; and more. The Devil's Pulpit collects all of Taylor's original spirited sermons. Analyzing the roots of the Bible, Taylor explores how pagan sun worship practices, Greek and Roman mythology, ancient Egyptian society, astrology, and astronomy all serve as direct undercurrents of Christianity. A firm copy of a very scarce work, with tight binding; rubbed corners and edges; rubbing to spine ends and edges; shelf wear to boards; light foxing to first and last few pages; interior is clean and free of markings.
