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Religious views of Samuel Johnson
The religious views of Samuel Johnson are expressed in both his moralistic writings and his sermons.
==Moralistic writings==
Samuel Johnson regarded himself as a moralist during his career between 1748 and 1760. Although Johnson wrote a poem, many essays, and a short novel, all of these works are connected by a common intent and each relates to others. The works during this period cannot be separated without disregarding Johnson's major ideas and themes.〔Bate p. 296〕
As David Greene points out, Johnson's moral writings contain no "predetermined and authorized pattern of 'good behavior,'" although they do emphasize certain kinds of conduct.〔Greene p. 87〕 To be moral, in Johnson's view, an individual must always be self-aware and self-critical.〔 Johnson respected committed Christians of other denominations than his own High Church Anglicanism. . His aversion to Milton's politics entails no attack Milton's religious beliefs. He defended Thomas Browne by saying, in his ''Life of Browne'':〔Greene p. 88〕
Men may differ from each other in many religious opinions, and yet all may retain the essentials of Christianity; men may sometimes eagerly dispute, and yet not differ much from one another: the rigorous prosecutors of error should, therefore, enlighten their zeal with knowledge, and temper their orthodoxy with charity; that charity without which orthodoxy is vain.
He attacks other religions or their adherents on the grounds that they betray Christ's teachings.〔Greene p. 89〕 This is not to say that Johnson was passive in his religious observance; instead, he was an 18th-century evangelical, which, as he defines in his ''Dictionary'', means "Agreeable to gospel; consonant to the Christian law contained in the holy gospel".〔Greene p. 90〕
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