Graham, Michael F. The Blasphemies of Thomas Aikenhead: Boundaries of Belief on the Eve of the Enlightenment (2008), scholarly study [1].
Proceedings against Thomas Aikenhead for Blasphemy – Text of indictment at Google Books from T. B. Howell (editor): A complete collection of state trials and proceedings for high treason and other crimes and misdemeanors from the earliest period to 1783, with notes and other illustrations, Volume 13, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1816; Cytat: „…and you have said that you hoped to see Christianity greatly weakened, and that you are confident that in short tyme it will be utterly extirpat”.
Proceedings against Thomas Aikenhead for Blasphemy – Text of indictment at Google Books from T. B. Howell (editor): A complete collection of state trials and proceedings for high treason and other crimes and misdemeanors from the earliest period to 1783, with notes and other illustrations, Volume 13, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1816; Cytat: „That ... the prisoner had repeatedly maintained, in conversation, that theology was a rhapsody of ill-invented nonsense, patched up partly of the moral doctrines of philosophers, and partly of poetical fictions and extravagant chimeras: That he ridiculed the holy scriptures, calling the Old Testament Ezra’s fables, in profane allusion to Esop’s Fables; That he railed on Christ, saying, he had learned magick in Egypt, which enabled him to perform those pranks which were called miracles: That he called the New Testament the history of the imposter Christ; That he said Moses was the better artist and the better politician; and he preferred Muhammad to Christ: That the Holy Scriptures were stuffed with such madness, nonsense, and contradictions, that he admired the stupidity of the world in being so long deluded by them: That he rejected the mystery of the Trinity as unworthy of refutation; and scoffed at the incarnation of Christ.”.
Proceedings against Thomas Aikenhead for Blasphemy – Text of indictment at Google Books from T. B. Howell (editor): A complete collection of state trials and proceedings for high treason and other crimes and misdemeanors from the earliest period to 1783, with notes and other illustrations, Volume 13, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1816; Cytat: „No counsel appeared for the prisoner”.
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Clare Jackson. Review: The Blasphemies of Thomas Aikenhead: Boundaries of Belief on the Eve of the Enlightenment. „The English Historical Review”. CXXV (514). s. 725–726. DOI: 10.1093/ehr/ceq118. OCLC2010-06-01. Cytat: „Generating considerable contemporary controversy and widespread printed publicity, news of Aikenhead’s fate extended outside Scotland and prompted a shocked John Locke to amass an extensive collection of materials relating to the case, which subsequently formed the basis of its early nineteenth-century appearance in State Trials. Thereafter, interest in Aikenhead’s execution has scarcely diminished, provoking fulminating denunciation from Lord Macaulay, alongside sundry macabre narrations and poetic portrayals”. (ang.).
Proceedings against Thomas Aikenhead for Blasphemy. W: Derek Jones: Censorship: A World Encyclopedia. Routledge, 2001-11-01, s. 23. [dostęp 2016-05-30]. (ang.).
Clare Jackson. Review: The Blasphemies of Thomas Aikenhead: Boundaries of Belief on the Eve of the Enlightenment. „The English Historical Review”. CXXV (514). s. 725–726. DOI: 10.1093/ehr/ceq118. OCLC2010-06-01. Cytat: „Generating considerable contemporary controversy and widespread printed publicity, news of Aikenhead’s fate extended outside Scotland and prompted a shocked John Locke to amass an extensive collection of materials relating to the case, which subsequently formed the basis of its early nineteenth-century appearance in State Trials. Thereafter, interest in Aikenhead’s execution has scarcely diminished, provoking fulminating denunciation from Lord Macaulay, alongside sundry macabre narrations and poetic portrayals”. (ang.).
