Pierre Bayle, Historical and Critical Dictionary

Enlightenment Era Writers, Responses to the Problem of Evil & the Problem of Pain

Pierre Bayle (1647–1706) was a Huguenot (a group of persecuted French Calvinists) who wrote the massive philosophical and lexical work known in English as the Historical and Critical Dictionary. Bayle’s entries in his Dictionary focus on a vast array of subjects, including a number of controversial religious and theological subjects. His most provocative ideas were […]

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