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God in the Enlightenment

  • Paperback
  • 344 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.8 cm

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For scholars and enthusiasts of religious history

Challenges the myth of secularism in the Enlightenment

You will gain a fresh perspective on faith's role in history

This insightful book uncovers the complex relationship between God and the Enlightenment.

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.

  • Authors

    William J. Bulman +1

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    May 2016

  • Weight

    441g

  • Page Count

    344

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780190267087

  • ISBN-10

    0190267089

  • Eden Code

    4370890

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