Anti-Atheism in Early Modern England 1580-1720: The Atheist Answered and His Error Confuted

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-26541-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 176, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

Reihe: Studies in the History of Chri

Atheists generated widespread anxieties between the Reformation and the Enlightenment. In response to such anxieties a distinct genre of religious apologetics emerged in England between 1580 and 1720. By examining the form and the content of the confutation of atheism, Anti-Atheism in Early Modern England demonstrates the prevalence of patterned assumptions and arguments about who an atheist was and what an atheist was supposed to believe, outlines and analyzes the major arguments against atheists, and traces the important changes and challenges to this apologetic discourse in the early Enlightenment.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sheppard, Kenneth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Alternative Glaubensformen Agnostizismus, Atheismus, Säkularer Humanismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Blasphemie, Ketzerei, Konversion, Abwendung von Religion
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Apologetik, Kritik am Christentum

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Anxieties About Atheism
2. “The Atheist Answered and His Error Confuted”
3. Atheist Epicurus
4. Anti-Atheist Plato
5. Atheism and Apostasy
6. Atheism and Society
7. Atheism and Happiness
8. From Confutation to Criticism
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kenneth Sheppard, Ph.D (2012), is currently a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Concordia university.