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Author | : David Sorkin |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2018-06-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0691188181 |
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In intellectual and political culture today, the Enlightenment is routinely celebrated as the starting point of modernity and secular rationalism, or demonized as the source of a godless liberalism in conflict with religious faith. In The Religious Enlightenment, David Sorkin alters our understanding by showing that the Enlightenment, at its heart, was religious in nature. Sorkin examines the lives and ideas of influential Protestant, Jewish, and Catholic theologians of the Enlightenment, such as William Warburton in England, Moses Mendelssohn in Prussia, and Adrien Lamourette in France, among others. He 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. Calvinist enlightened orthodoxy, Jewish Haskalah, and reform Catholicism, to name but three such movements, were influential participants in the eighteenth century's burgeoning public sphere and promoted a new ideal of church-state relations. Sorkin shows how they pioneered a religious Enlightenment that 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. This book reveals how Enlightenment theologians refashioned belief as a solution to the dogmatism and intolerance of previous centuries. Read it and you will never view the Enlightenment the same way.
Author | : S. J. Barnett |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2013-07-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1847795935 |
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This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book offers a critical survey of religious change and its causes in eighteenth-century Europe, and constitutes a challenge to the accepted views in traditional Enlightenment studies. Focusing on Enlightenment Italy, France and England, it illustrates how the canonical view of eighteenth-century religious change has in reality been constructed upon scant evidence and assumption, in particular the idea that the thought of the enlightened led to modernity. For, despite a lack of evidence, one of the fundamental assumptions of Enlightenment studies has been the assertion that there was a vibrant Deist movement which formed the “intellectual solvent” of the eighteenth century. The central claim of this book is that the immense ideological appeal of the traditional birth-of-modernity myth has meant that the actual lack of Deists has been glossed over, and a quite misleading historical view has become entrenched.
Author | : Peter Harrison |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2002-05-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521892933 |
Download 'Religion' and the Religions in the English Enlightenment Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This study examines the changes which took place in the understanding of 'religion' and 'the religions' during the Enlightenment in England, the period when the decisive break with Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance notions of religion occurred. Dr Harrison's view is that the principles of the English Enlightenment not only made a special contribution to our modern understanding of what religion is, but they pioneered, in addition, the 'scientific', or non-religious approach, to religious phenomena. During this period a crisis of authority in the Church necessitated a rational enquiry into the various forms of Christianity, and in addition, into the claims of all religions. This led to a concept of 'religion' (based on 'natural' theology) which could link together the apparently disparate religious beliefs and practices found in the empirical religions.
Author | : John M. Owen IV |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2011-01-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0231526628 |
Download Religion, the Enlightenment, and the New Global Order Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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. While acknowledging the necessity of the Enlightenment emphasis on toleration and peaceful religious coexistence, these scholars nevertheless have grave misgivings about the Enlightenment's spiritually thin secularism. The authors ultimately upend both the claim that the West's experience offers a ready-made template for the world to follow and the belief that the West's achievements are to be ignored, despised, or discarded.
Author | : Knud Haakonssen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2006-11-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780521029872 |
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A wide-ranging collection of studies on Enlightenment and religion in eighteenth-century England.
Author | : Anton M. Matytsin |
Publisher | : Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2018-09-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1421426013 |
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Matytsin, Darrin M. McMahon, James Schmidt, Céline Spector, Jo Van Cauter
Author | : Jessica Patterson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2021-12-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1009037536 |
Download Religion, Enlightenment and Empire Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the second half of the eighteenth century, several British East India Company servants published accounts of what they deemed to be the original and ancient religion of India. Drawing on what are recognised today as the texts and traditions of Hinduism, these works fed into a booming enlightenment interest in Eastern philosophy. At the same time, the Company's aggressive conquest of Bengal was facing a crisis of legitimacy and many of the prominent political minds of the day were turning their attention to the question of empire. In this original study, Jessica Patterson situates these Company works on the 'Hindu religion' in the twin contexts of enlightenment and empire. In doing so, she uncovers the central role of heterodox religious approaches to Indian religions for enlightenment thought, East India Company policy, and contemporary ideas of empire.
Author | : Lieven Boeve |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9042020679 |
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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. The first part of this volume explores the ideas of Enlightenment philosophers and shows nuances often absent from the common view of the Enlightenment. The second part deals with some of the modern heirs of Enlightenment, such as Durkheim, Habermas, and Derrida. In the third part this volume looks at alternatives to Enlightenment thought in West European, Russian and Buddhist philosophy. Part four provides, over against the Enlightenment, a new starting point for the philosophy of religion in thinking about human beings, God, and the description of phenomena.
Author | : Ann Thomson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2008-07-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199236194 |
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`The church in danger' : latitudinarians, socinians, and hobbists -- Animal spirits and living fibres -- Mortalists and materialists -- Journalism, exile, and clandestinity -- Mid-eighteenth-century materialism -- Epilogue: Some consequences.
Author | : James E. Bradley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download Religion and Politics in Enlightenment Europe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This work shows that the collapse of the post-reformation confessional state was more the result of religious dissent from within, much of it orthodox, than attacks of an anti-religious Enlightenment. In sharp contrast to the Reformation-era religious conflicts which tended to pit Protestant and Catholic confessions and states against each other, the 18th century religious conflicts described in this work took place within the various confessional establishments and states that founded and maintained them, such as Russian Orthodoxy in the East and the Anglican Establishment in England and Ireland. In the course of its analysis, this work destroys the notion of any kind of privileged relationship between religion and political or social reaction. This work reveals the religious roots of modern ideas of individual rights and limitations on government, as well as the imperative of political order and the need for social hierarchy.