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The Religious Enlightenment
Author | : David Sorkin |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2018-06-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780691188188 |
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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.
The Enlightenment and Religion
Author | : S. J. Barnett |
Publsiher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0719067413 |
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This publication offers a critical survey of religious change and its causes in 18th-century Europe. Focusing on the Enlightenment in Italy, France and England, the text illustrates how the canonical view of 18th-century religious change has in reality been constructed upon scant evidence and assumption.
Enlightenment and Religion
Author | : Knud Haakonssen |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2006-11-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0521029872 |
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A wide-ranging collection of studies on Enlightenment and religion in eighteenth-century England.
Religion the Enlightenment and the New Global Order
Author | : John M. Owen IV,J. Judd Owen |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2011-01-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780231526623 |
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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.
Religion Enlightenment and Empire
Author | : Jessica Patterson |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2021-12-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781316510636 |
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Explores British interpretations of Hinduism at a crucial period in the East India Company's conquest of Bengal.
Faith in the Enlightenment
Author | : Lieven Boeve |
Publsiher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789042020672 |
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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.
The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science
Author | : Peter Harrison |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2007-12-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521875592 |
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Religion and the Religions in the English Enlightenment
Author | : Peter Harrison |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2002-05-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521892937 |
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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.