Joseph Rathborne (11 May 1807,

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– 12 August 1842,

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) was an English

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and

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Works

As "Alethphilos" Rathborne published: * ''Letters of Alethphilos'' (1839), on a controversy about

prayers for the dead Religions with the belief in a future judgment, a resurrection of the dead or a purgatory often offer prayers on behalf of the dead to God. Buddhism For most funerals that follow the tradition of Chinese Buddhism, common practices include chantin ...

* ''Good Friday and Easter Sunday'' (1839) * ''Letters to the Protestants of the Isle of Wight on the Catholic Religion'' (1839) * ''A Reply to the Reverend Barnabas Rodriguez Almeda'' (1840) * ''A Letter to Dr. Adams, shewing Purgatory inseparably connected with Prayers for the Dead'' (1840) * ''Are the Puseyites sincere?'' (1841); and * ''The Church in its Relations with Truth and the State'' (1841), reply to

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. Under his own name Rathborne published ''The Clergy of the French Revolution'', an obituary sermon on Richard Caesar de Grenthe. ;Attribution

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