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Enlightenment and Religion: rational dissent in eighteenth-century Britain by Knud HaakonssenPublication Date: 1996-05-30
This book reassesses the relationship between Enlightenment and religion in England. It has long been accepted that liberal, rational dissenters developed an Enlightenment agenda, but most literature on this topic is out of date. These interdisciplinary essays provide a fresh analysis of rational dissent within English Enlightenment culture from a variety of viewpoints. Its wide perspective and new research make Enlightenment and Religion an important and original contribution to eighteenth-century studies.
Religion and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century England: theological debate from Locke to Burke by B. W. YoungPublication Date: 1998-05-14
This book is on the intellectual culture of the eighteenth-century Church of England relating to the Enlightenment. It delineates the vigorous clerical culture in which much eighteenth-century thought evolved. The book traces the creation of a self-consciously enlightened tradition within Anglicanism, which drew on Erasmianism, seventeenth-century eirenicism and the legacy of Locke. The book challenges notions of Enlightenment which advance predominantly political interpretations of this period.
God in the Enlightenment by William J. Bulman (Editor); Robert G. Ingram (Editor)ISBN: 9780190267087
Publication Date: 2016-05-23
Contrary to popular belief, God not only survived the Enlightenment, but thrived within it. By exposing the Enlightenment's close ties to the traditions of the Renaissance, the passions of the Reformation, and the stirrings of globalization, 'God in the Enlightenment' offers a spectral view of the age of lights.
The Religious Enlightenment : Protestants, Jews, and Catholics from London to ViennaPublication Date: 2011-05-15
David Sorkin examines the lives and ideas of influential Protestant, Jewish, and Catholic theologians of the Enlightenment and demonstrates that, in the century before the French Revolution, the major religions of Europe gave rise to movements of renewal and reform that championed such hallmark Enlightenment ideas as reasonableness and natural religion, toleration and natural law. Sorkin shows how a religious Enlightenment embraced the new science of Copernicus and Newton and the philosophy of Descartes, Locke, and Christian Wolff, uniting reason and revelation to renew faith and piety.
Boswell's Enlightenment by Robert ZaretskyISBN: 9780674425231
Publication Date: 2015-03-01
Throughout his life James Boswell struggled to fashion a clear account of himself, but try as he might he could not reconcile the truths of his era with those of his religious upbringing. Few periods better crystallize this turmoil than 1763-1765, the years of his Grand Tour and the focus of Robert Zaretsky's thrilling intellectual adventure.
Responses to the Enlightenment: an exchange on foundations, faith, and community by William Sweet; Hendrik HartPublication Date: 2012-01-01
Since the time of the Enlightenment in Western Europe, discussions of faith and reason have often pitted the believer against the skeptic, the theist against the atheist, and the person of one faith against the person of no professed faith. But the relation of reason to faith has been a matter of debate among believers as well. There are those who hold that religious faith can be proven or supported by rational argument. Others say that to try to give reasons and arguments does violence to religious faith, or opens it to misunderstanding and doubt, or trivializes it.
Religion, the Enlightenment, and the New Global Order by John M. Owen; J. Judd Owen (Editor)Publication Date: 2011-01-17
Largely due to the cultural and political shift of the Enlightenment, Western societies in the eighteenth century emerged from sectarian conflict and embraced a more religiously moderate path. In nine original essays, leading scholars ask whether exporting the Enlightenment solution is possible--or even desirable--today. Contributors begin by revisiting the Enlightenment's restructuring of the West, examining its ongoing encounters with Protestant and Catholic Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Hinduism.
Faith in the Enlightenment?: the critique of the enlightenment revisited by L. BoeveISBN: 9781429456180
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
One of the urgent tasks of modern philosophy is to find a path between the rationalism of the Enlightenment and the relativism of postmodernism. Rationalism alone cannot suffice to solve today's problems, but neither can we dispense with reasonable critique. The task is to find ways to broaden the scope of rational thought without losing its critical power.
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