Peter Browne

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Peter Browne (theologian)

Peter Browne (c. 1665 – 27 August 1735) was an Irish Anglican priest and bishop of Cork and Ross.

Life

Born in County Dublin, Browne entered Trinity College, Dublin, in 1682, and after ten years' residence obtained a fellowship. In 1699 he was made provost of the college, and in the same year published his Letter in answer to a Book entitled "Christianity not Mysterious," which was recognized as the ablest reply yet written to Toland. It expounds in germ the whole of his later theory of analogy. In 1710 he was made bishop of Cork and Ross, which post he held till his death in 1735.

Works

In 1713 Browne became known for his vigorous pamphleteering attack on the fashion of drinking healths, especially "to the glorious and immortal memory." His two most important works are the Procedure, Extent, and Limits of the Human Understanding (1728), an able though sometimes captious critique of Locke's essay, and Things Divine and Supernatural conceived by Analogy with Things Natural and Human, more briefly referred to as the Divine Analogy (1733).

Peter Browne (priest)

The Very Rev. Peter Browne, MA was Dean of Ferns from 1794 until his death on 21 July 1842.

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