God in the Enlightenment

Nonfiction, History, Modern, 18th Century, Religion & Spirituality, Reference, Christianity, Church, Church History
Cover of the book God in the Enlightenment by , Oxford University Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: ISBN: 9780190602109
Publisher: Oxford University Press Publication: April 25, 2016
Imprint: Oxford University Press Language: English
Author:
ISBN: 9780190602109
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication: April 25, 2016
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Language: English

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 G. 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. The Enlightenment's primary imperatives were not freedom and irreligion but peace and prosperity. As a result, Enlightenment could be Christian, communitarian, or authoritarian as easily as it could be atheistic, individualistic, or libertarian. Honing in on the intellectual crisis of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries while moving from Spinoza to Kant and from India to Peru, God in the Enlightenment takes a prism to the age of lights.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

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 G. 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. The Enlightenment's primary imperatives were not freedom and irreligion but peace and prosperity. As a result, Enlightenment could be Christian, communitarian, or authoritarian as easily as it could be atheistic, individualistic, or libertarian. Honing in on the intellectual crisis of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries while moving from Spinoza to Kant and from India to Peru, God in the Enlightenment takes a prism to the age of lights.

More books from Oxford University Press

Cover of the book Managing Your Child's Chronic Pain by
Cover of the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by
Cover of the book From Battlefields Rising by
Cover of the book Why Mothers Kill by
Cover of the book The Sacred Project of American Sociology by
Cover of the book Hellenistic Literature: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide by
Cover of the book Integrative Rheumatology by
Cover of the book Debating Climate Ethics by
Cover of the book Civic Ritual: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide by
Cover of the book Ancient Jewish Novels by
Cover of the book A Matter of Style by
Cover of the book Protest State by
Cover of the book Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Rising Sun by
Cover of the book The Entrepreneurial Muse by
Cover of the book Five Children and It Level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library by
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy