God in the Enlightenment

William J. Bulman is Assistant Professor of History at Lehigh University. Robert G. Ingram is Associate Professor of History and Director of the George Washington Forum on American Ideas, Politics, and Institutions at Ohio University.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsEditors and ContributorsIntroduction: Enlightenment for the Culture WarsWilliam J. Bulman1: Godless Politics: Hobbes and Public ReligionJustin Champion2: Reason and Utility in French Religious ApologeticsAnton Matytsin3: Bernabé Cobo's Re-creation of an Authentic America in Colonial PeruClaudia Brosseder4: From Christian Apologetics to Deism: Libertine Readings of Hinduism, 1600-1730Joan-Pau Rubiés5: The Platonic Captivity of Primitive Christianity and the Enlightening of AugustinePaul C.H. Lim6: God's Word in the Dutch RepublicJetze Touber7: Suffering Job: Christianity Beyond MetaphysicsJonathan Sheehan8: The Reformation Origins of the Enlightenment's GodBrad S. Gregory9: 'God' and 'the Enlightenment': The Divine Attributes and the Question of Categories in British DiscourseJ. C. D. Clark10: Medicine, Theology, and the Problem of Germany's Pietist EcstaticsH. C. Erik Midelfort11: Richard Bentley's Paradise Lost and the Ghost of SpinozaSarah EllenzweigConclusion: 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.