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God in the Enlightenment

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

AvBULMAN,William J. Bulman,Robert G. Ingram

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We have long been taught that the Enlightenment was an attempt to free the world from the clutches of Christian civilization and make it safe for philosophy. The lesson has been well learned---in today's culture wars, both liberals and their conservative enemies, inside and outside the academy, rest their claims about the present on the notion that the Enlightenment was a secularist movement of philosophically-driven emancipation. Historians have had doubts about the accuracy of this portrait for some time, but they have never managed to furnish a viable alternative to it---for themselves, for scholars interested in matters of church and state, or for the public at large. In this book, William J. Bulman and Robert Ingram bring together recent scholarship from distinguished experts in history, theology, and literature to make clear that God not only survived the Enlightenment, but thrived within it as well.The Enlightenment was not a radical break from the past in which Europeans jettisoned their intellectual and institutional inheritance. It was, to be sure, a moment of great change, but one in which the characteristic convictions and traditions of the Renaissance and Reformation were perpetuated to the point of transformation, in the wake of the Wars of Religion and during the early phases of globalization. Its primary imperatives were not freedom and irreligion but peace and prosperity. As a result, it could be Christian, communitarian, or authoritarian as easily as it could be atheist, individualist, or libertarian. Honing in on the intellectual crisis of late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries while moving everywhere from Spinoza to Kant and from India to Peru, God in the Enlightenment offers a spectral view of the age of lights.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2016-05-12
Mått239 x 160 x 25 mm
Vikt706 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieAcademic
Antal sidor336
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780190267070

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AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsEditors and Contributors Introduction: Enlightenment for the Culture WarsWilliam J. Bulman 1: Godless Politics: Hobbes and Public Religion Justin Champion 2: Reason and Utility in French Religious ApologeticsAnton Matytsin 3: Bernabé Cobo's Re-creation of an Authentic America in Colonial Peru Claudia Brosseder 4: From Christian Apologetics to Deism: Libertine Readings of Hinduism, 1600-1730Joan-Pau Rubiés 5: The Platonic Captivity of Primitive Christianity and the Enlightening of AugustinePaul C.H. Lim 6: God's Word in the Dutch RepublicJetze Touber 7: Suffering Job: Christianity Beyond MetaphysicsJonathan Sheehan 8: The Reformation Origins of the Enlightenment's GodBrad S. Gregory 9: 'God' and 'the Enlightenment': The Divine Attributes and the Question of Categories in British DiscourseJ. C. D. Clark 10: Medicine, Theology, and the Problem of Germany's Pietist EcstaticsH. C. Erik Midelfort 11: Richard Bentley's Paradise Lost and the Ghost of SpinozaSarah Ellenzweig Conclusion: The Varieties of Enlightened ExperienceDale K. Van Kley

very much because of the volume's successes and the stylistic and interpretive issues it raises, each contribution to God in the Enlightenment advances our understanding of the period by sparking further debate about, and investigation into, what in France was known to contemporaries as the siècle de lumières (century of lights). This important edited volume depicts the Enlightenment as a diverse constellation of reform programs that had, among their origins, theological controversies of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, and as their consequences, seismic shifts in how Modern Europeans (and the societies shaped or disrupted by them) would eventually talk about God, faith, and religious expression.