George Turnbull (1698-1748) was a leading light in a group of early Scottish Enlightenment thinkers who found their native Calvinism too repressive and who sought to harmonize religion with reason and science and thereby establish a truly humane form of Christianity. The writings collected here show how Turnbull drew on the culture of classical antiquity and on the ideas of such modern figures as Newton and Shaftesbury to fashion a system of philosophy designed to replace the blend of scholasticism and dogmatic theology that he believed had corrupted the educational institutions and the social attitudes of his day, Turnbull endeavored to inculcate the values of politeness and civic virtue and to demonstrate that, once the teachings of Christ were properly understood, Christianity could be seen to be reasonable, tolerant, and morally beneficial both to the individual and to society more generally. Education for Life illustrates the full range and development of Turnbull's intellectual interests, bringing together for the first time his pamphlets on religious topics and his surviving correspondence, along with translations of the two Latin graduation orations he delivered while teaching at Marischal College, Aberdeen, and a significant essay on religion and the state, which remained in manuscript because it was considered too controversial to be published in early eighteenth-century Scotland. The book makes available a considerable amount of new biographical information and documents Turnbull's interventions in the debates over education, the value of history and the fine arts, and the truth of Christianity that were central to the Enlightenment. Book jacket.