Benutzer:Renhumbar/Richard Fiddes
Vorlage:Short description Vorlage:Use dmy dates Richard Fiddes (1671–1725) war ein anglikanischer Geistlicher und Theologe.
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[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]Fiddes wurde 1671 in Hunmanby geboren. Er studierte an der Universität Oxford. 1696 wurde er ordiniert und erlangte die Pfründe von Halsham (Holderness). Aufgrund gesundheitlicher Probleme begab er sich zunächst nach Wickham (North Yorkshire). 1712 übersiedelte er schließlich in der Absicht, eine Karriere als Schriftsteller zu verfolgen, nach London, wo er auf Jonathan Swift traf, der ihm eine Kaplanei in Hull vermittelte. Er wurde zudem der Kaplan des Grafen von Oxford. Nachdem er das Kaplansamt 1714 durch den Regierungswechsel verloren hatte, wandte er sich der Schriftstellerei zu.
Anlässlich Alexander Popes Übersetzung von Homers Ilias verfasste er 1714 eine Prefatory Epistle Concerning Some Remarks to Be Published on Homer’s Iliad. Seine Theologia speculativa (1718) brachte ihm den Titel eines D.D. in Oxford ein. Sein bestes Buch ist eine 1724 publizierte Biografie Kardinal Wolseys.
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[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]The Proofs and Influence of a Future Judgment. Considered Upon Acts, XXIV. 25. (1710?)
Practical Discourses on Several Subjects (1712)
A Prefatory Epistle Concerning Some Remarks to Be Published on Homer’s Iliad: Occasioned by the Proposals of Mr. Pope Towards a New English Version of that Poem (1714)
Practical Discourses on Several Subjects (1714)
A Preparative to the Lord’s Supper (1715)
Theologia Speculativa: or, The First Part of A Body of Divinity Under that Title. Wherein Are Explain'd the Principles of Natural and Reveal'd Religion (1718)
Six Practical Discourses on Several Subjects (1720)
Theologia Practica: or, the Second Part of A Body of Divinity Under that Title (1720)
Fifty Two Practical Discourses on Several Subjects (1720)
A Letter, in Answer to One from a Free-Thinker: Occasion'd by the Later Duke of Buckinghamshire's Epitaph. Wherein Certain Passages in It that Have Been Thought Exceptionable, Are Vincdicated; and the Doctrine of the Soul's Immortality Asserted. To Which Is Prefix'd, a Version of the Epitaph, Agreeable to the Explication Given of It in the Answer. With an Introduction, Containing Extracts of Two Letters Relating to the Conduct of that Noble Lord (1721)
A General Treatise of Morality, Form'd Upon the Principles of Natural Reason Only. With a Preface in Answer to Two Essays Lately Published in the Fable of the Bees. And Some Incidental Remarks Upon an Inquiry Concerning Virtue, by the Right Honourable Anthony Early of Shaftsbury (1724)
The Life of Cardinal Wolsey (1724; 21726)
The Doctrine of a Future State, and that ot the Soul's Immortality, Asserted and Distinctly Proved; in Two Letters to a Free-Thinker. Occasion'd by the Late Duke of Buckingham's Epitaph. To Which Is Prefix'd, a Version of the Epitaph. With an Introduction, Containing Extracts of Two Letters Relating to the Conduct of that Noble Lord (1725)
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[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]{{Authority control}} {{EB1911 article with no significant updates}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Fiddes, Richard}} [[Category:1671 births]] [[Category:1725 deaths]] [[Category:People from Hunmanby]] [[Category:18th-century English Anglican priests]] [[Category:18th-century English historians]]