Peter Browne (1665–1735)

BROWNE, PETER (?1665-1735), Irish divine and bishop of Cork and Ross, was born in Co. Dublin, not long after the Restoration. He 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. In 1710 he was made bishop of Cork and Ross, which post he held till his death in 1733. His two most important works are the Procedure, Extent, and, Limits of the Human Understanding (1728), and Things Divine and Supernatural conceived by Analogy with Things Natural and Human, more briefly referred to as the Divine Analogy (1733). This view was vigorously assailed as leading to atheism by Berkeley in his Alciphron (Dialogue iv.), and a great part of the Divine Analogy is occupied with a defence against that criticism. His analogical arguments resemble those found in the Bampton Lectures of Dean Mansel.
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"The Longest Journey: Resettling Refugees from Africa" is by as different Peter Browne than the author of "Things Divine and Supernatural Conceived by Analogy with Things Natural", "Of drinking in remembrance of the dead. Being the substance of a discourse" and "A second part of drinking in remembrance of the dead"