Conyers Middleton
Conyers Middleton (27 Desember 1683 – 28 Juli 1750) adalah seorang pendeta Inggris. Middleton lahir di Yorkshire, dan dididik di sebuah sekolah di York dan di Trinity College, Cambridge. Pada tahun 1717, ia terlibat dalam sengketa dengan Richard Bentley mengenai penganugerahan gelar.
Pada tahun 1749, ia menerbitkan A Free Inquiry into the Miraculous Powers, which are Supposed to Have Subsisted in the Christian Church, yang merupakan salah satu karya terpentingnya. Ia meninggal di Hildersham, di dekat Cambridge.
Karya
sunting- A Letter from Rome, Shewing an Exact Conformity Between Popery and Paganism, 1729
- A Free Inquiry into the Miraculous Powers, which are Supposed to Have Subsisted in the Christian Church, 1749
- Reflections on the variations, or inconsistencies, which are found among the four Evangelists (póstumo, 1752)
Referensi
sunting- Leslie Stephen, English Thought in the Eighteenth Century, ch. vi.