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Further reading

• Brown, Miracles and the Critical Mind, Paternoster, Exeter UK/William B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 1984.
• Brooke, John H. Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1991.
• Clarke, M.L., Paley: Evidences for the Man, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1974.
• Dodds, G. L. Paley, Wearside and Natural Theology, Sunderland, 2003.
• Eddy, Matthew D., 'The Science and Rhetoric of Paley's Natural Theology', Literature and Theology, 18 (2004), 1-22.
• Fyfe, A. 'Publishing and the classics: Paley's Natural Theology and the nineteenth-century scientific canon', Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, 33 (2002), 433-55.
• Gascoigne, J., 'Rise and Fall of British Newtonian Natural Theology', Science in Context, 2 (1988), 219-256.
• Gillespie, N. C. 'Divine Design and the Industrial Revolution. William Paley's Abortive Reform of Natural Theology', Isis, 81 (1990), 214-229.
• Gilson, E., From Aristotle to Darwin and Back again: A Journey in Final Causality, Species, and Evolution, John Lyon (trans), Notre Dame University Press, London 1984.
• Hodder and Sloughton , Philosophy of Religion
• Knight, David. Science and Spirituality: The Volatile Connection, Routledge, London, 2004.
• LeMahieu, D.L. The Mind of William Paley, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1976.
• McAdoo, H. R., The Spirit of Anglicanism: A Survey of Anglican Theological Method in the Seventeenth Century (London, 1965).
• McGrath, A. E., A Scientific Theology: Volume I, Nature, Continuum, Edinburgh, 2001.
• Meadley, G. W. Memoirs of William Paley, to which is Added an Appendix, London, 1809.
• Ospovat, D. The Development of Darwin's Theory: Natural History, Natural Theology and Natural Selection, 1838-1859, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995.
• Paley, E. An Account of the Life and Writings of William Paley, [1825], Farnborough: Gregg, 1970; originally, this was the first volume of The Works of William Paley, London, 1825.
• Paley, William, Natural Theology, with an introduction and notes by Matthew D. Eddy and David M. Knight, Oxford University Press, 2006.
• Pelikan, J. Christianity and Classical Culture: The Metamorphosis of Natural Theology in the Christian Encounter with Hellenism, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1993.
• Philipp, W. 'Physicotheology in the Age of Enlightenment: Appearance and History', Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 57 (1967), 1233-1267.
• Porter, R. 'Creation and Credence', in Barry Barnes and Steven Shapin (eds), Natural Order: Historical Studies of Scientific Culture, Sage Press, Beverly Hills, 1979.
• Raven, C. Natural Religion and Christian Theology, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1953.
• Richards, R. J. The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe, Chicago University Press, Chicago, 2002.
• Rose, J. The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2002.
• Rosen, Frederick, Classical Utilitarianism from Hume to Mill (Routledge Studies in Ethics & Moral Theory), 2003. ISBN 0415220947
• Rousseau, G. S. and Roy Porter (eds), The Ferment of Knowledge – Studies in the Historiography of Eighteenth Century Science, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1980.
• St Clair, W. The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004.
• Topham, J. R. 'Science, natural theology, and evangelicalism in the early nineteenth century: Thomas Chalmers and the evidence controversy', in D. N. Livingstone, D. G. Hart and M. A. Knoll, Evangelicals and Science in Historical Perspective (Oxford: 1999), 142-174.
• Topham, J. R. 'Beyond the "Common Context": the Production and Reading of the Bridgewater Treatises', Isis, 89 (1998), 233-62.
• Viner, J. The Role of Providence in the Social Order, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1972.
• Von Sydow, M. 'Charles Darwin: A Christian undermining Christianity?', in David M. Knight and Matthew D. Eddy, Science and Beliefs: From Natural Philosophy to Natural Science, Ashgate, Aldershot, 2005