Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: God In The Enlightenment
Brand: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780190267087
Pages: 336 Pages, 1
Publication Date: 5/23/2016
Category: History Of Ideas