God in the Enlightenment

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-19-026707-0
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 672 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bulman

Bulman, William J.

Ingram, Robert G.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Contents

- Acknowledgements

- Abbreviations

- Editors and Contributors

- Introduction: Enlightenment for the Culture Wars

- William J. Bulman

- 1: Godless Politics: Hobbes and Public Religion

- Justin Champion

- 2: Reason and Utility in French Religious Apologetics

- Anton Matytsin

- 3: Bernabé Cobo's Re-creation of an Authentic America in Colonial Peru

- Claudia Brosseder

- 4: From Christian Apologetics to Deism: Libertine Readings of Hinduism, 1600-1730

- Joan-Pau Rubiés

- 5: The Platonic Captivity of Primitive Christianity and the Enlightening of Augustine

- Paul C.H. Lim

- 6: God's Word in the Dutch Republic

- Jetze Touber

- 7: Suffering Job: Christianity Beyond Metaphysics

- Jonathan Sheehan

- 8: The Reformation Origins of the Enlightenment's God

- Brad S. Gregory

- 9: 'God' and 'the Enlightenment': The Divine Attributes and the Question of Categories in British Discourse

- J. C. D. Clark

- 10: Medicine, Theology, and the Problem of Germany's Pietist Ecstatics

- H. C. Erik Midelfort

- 11: Richard Bentley's Paradise Lost and the Ghost of Spinoza

- Sarah Ellenzweig

- Conclusion: The Varieties of Enlightened Experience

- Dale K. Van Kley

Über Autor(innen)

William J. Bulman is Assistant Professor of History at Lehigh University. Robert G. Ingram is Associate Professor of History and Director of the George Washington Forum on American Ideas, Politics, and Institutions at Ohio University.