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title: 'Eureka, An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe, by Edgar Allen Poe'
type: pdf
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authors:
- 'Clement Read Vaughan'
date: 1906-12-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '20th century'
topics:
- 'Apologetical Method'
- 'Natural Theology'
- 'Theological Method'
scriptures:
- 'Psalms 139'
- 'Genesis 1'
- 'Romans 1'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/20th-century/vaughan-1906-1907-eureka-an-essay-on-the-material-and-spiritual-universe-by-edgar-allen-poe
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# Eureka, An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe, by Edgar Allen Poe

Critical review of Poe's Eureka, rejecting its pantheistic conclusions and speculative "imagination" method. Defends God's infinity, omnipresence, and rational natural-theology.

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