The Intellectual Consequences Of Religious Heterodoxy 1600 1750

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004226081

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The Intellectual Consequences of Religious Heterodoxy, 1600-1750 by Anonim Pdf

It is too often assumed that religious heterodoxy before the Enlightenment led inexorably to intellectual secularisation. Challenging that assumption, this book expands the scope of the enquiry, hitherto concentrated on the relation between heterodoxy and natural philosophy, to include political thought, moral philosophy and the writing of history. Individual chapters are devoted to Grotius, the Dutch Remonstrants and Socinianism, to Hobbes, Robert Boyle, Robert Hooke, Dutch Collegiants and English Unitarians, Giambattista Vico, Conyers Middleton, and David Hume. In their opening essay the editors argue that the critical problems for both Protestants and Catholics arose from destabilising the relation between the spheres of Nature and Revelation, and the adoption of an increasingly historical approach both to natural religion and to the Scriptual basis of Revelation. Contributors include: Hans Blom, Justin Champion, Jonathan Israel, Martin Mulsow, Enrico Nuzzo, William Poole, Sami-Juhani Savonius, Richard Serjeantson, and Brian Young.

Author : Sarah Mortimer,John Robertson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004221468

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The Intellectual Consequences of Religious Heterodoxy, 1600-1750 by Sarah Mortimer,John Robertson Pdf

Challenging the common assumption that religious heterodoxy was a prelude to the secularisation of thought, this volume explores the variety of relations between heterodox theology, political thought, moral and natural philosophy and historical writing in both Protestant and Catholic Europe from 1600 to the Enlightenment.

Author : Paul Stock
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192533876

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Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830 by Paul Stock Pdf

Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830 explores what literate British people understood by the word 'Europe' in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Was Europe unified by shared religious heritage? Where were the edges of Europe? Was Europe primarily a commercial network or were there common political practices too? Was Britain itself a European country? While intellectual history is concerned predominantly with prominent thinkers, Paul Stock traces the history of ideas in non-elite contexts, offering a detailed analysis of nearly 350 geographical reference works, textbooks, dictionaries, and encyclopaedias, which were widely read by literate Britons of all classes, and can reveal the formative ideas about Europe circulating in Britain: ideas about religion; the natural environment; race and other theories of human difference; the state; borders; the identification of the 'centre' and 'edges' of Europe; commerce and empire; and ideas about the past, progress, and historical change. By showing how these and other questions were discussed in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British culture, Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830 provides a thorough and much-needed historical analysis of Britain's enduringly complex intellectual relationship with Europe.

Author : Paul Avis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567705662

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Theology and the Enlightenment by Paul Avis Pdf

Challenging the common assumption that the Enlightenment of the late seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries was an essentially secular, irreligious and atheistic movement, this book critiques this standard interpretation as based on a narrow view of Enlightenment sources. Building on the work of revisionist historians, this volume takes the argument squarely into the theological domain, whether Anglican, Dissenting, Lutheran or deistic, whilst also noting that the Enlightenment deeply affected Roman Catholic and Jewish theologies. It challenges the stereotype of 'Enlightenment rationalism', and the penultimate chapter brings out the biblical and ecclesial roots of the image of enlightenment and reclaims it for Christian faith.

Author : Trude Dijkstra
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004473294

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Printing and Publishing Chinese Religion and Philosophy in the Dutch Republic, 1595–1700 by Trude Dijkstra Pdf

This book discusses how Chinese religion and philosophy were represented in printed works produced in the Dutch Republic between 1595 and 1700. By focusing on books, newspapers, learned journals, and pamphlets, Trude Dijkstra sheds new light on the cultural encounter between China and western Europe in the early modern period. Form, content, and material-technical aspects of different media in Dutch and French are analysed, providing novel insights into the ways in which readers could take note of Chinese religion and philosophy. This study thereby demonstrates that there was no singular image of China and its religion and philosophy, but rather a varied array of notions on the subject.

Author : Jonathan C. P. Birch
Publisher : Springer
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137512765

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Jesus in an Age of Enlightenment by Jonathan C. P. Birch Pdf

This book explores the religious concerns of Enlightenment thinkers from Thomas Hobbes to Thomas Jefferson. Using an innovative method, the study illuminates the intellectual history of the age through interpretations of Jesus between c.1650 and c.1826. The book demonstrates the persistence of theology in modern philosophy and the projects of social reform and amelioration associated with the Enlightenment. At the core of many of these projects was a robust moral-theological realism, sometimes manifest in a natural law ethic, but always associated with Jesus and a commitment to the sovereign goodness of God. This ethical orientation in Enlightenment discourse is found in a range of different metaphysical and political identities (dualist and monist; progressive and radical) which intersect with earlier ‘heretical’ tendencies in Christian thought (Arianism, Pelagianism, and Marcionism). This intellectual matrix helped to produce the discourses of irenic toleration which are a legacy of the Enlightenment at its best.

Author : Nicholas Hardy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198716099

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Criticism and Confession by Nicholas Hardy Pdf

The period between the late Renaissance and the early Enlightenment has long been regarded as the zenith of the republic of letters, a pan-European community of like-minded scholars and intellectuals who fostered critical approaches to the study of the Bible and other ancient texts, while renouncing the brutal religio-political disputes that were tearing their continent apart at the same time. Criticism and Confession offers an unprecedentedly comprehensive challenge to this account. Throughout this period, all forms of biblical scholarship were intended to contribute to theological debates, rather than defusing or transcending them, and meaningful collaboration between scholars of different confessions was an exception, rather than the norm. Neutrality was a fiction that obscured the ways in which scholarship served the interests of ecclesiastical and political institutions. Scholarly practices varied from one confessional context to another, and the progress of 'criticism' was never straightforward. The study demonstrates this by placing scholarly works in dialogue with works of dogmatic theology, and comparing examples from multiple confessional and national contexts. It offers major revisionist treatments of canonical figures in the history of scholarship, such as Joseph Scaliger, Isaac Casaubon, John Selden, Hugo Grotius, and Louis Cappel, based on unstudied archival as well as printed sources; and it places those figures alongside their more marginal, overlooked counterparts. It also contextualizes scholarly correspondence and other forms of intellectual exchange by considering them alongside the records of political and ecclesiastical bodies. Throughout, the study combines the methods of the history of scholarship with techniques drawn from other fields, including literary, political, and religious history. As well as presenting a new history of seventeenth-century biblical criticism, it also critiques modern scholarly assumptions about the relationships between erudition, humanistic culture, political activism, and religious identity.

Author : Barbara Fuchs,Mercedes García-Arenal
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487535490

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The Quest for Certainty in Early Modern Europe by Barbara Fuchs,Mercedes García-Arenal Pdf

This interdisciplinary collection explores how the early modern pursuit of knowledge in very different spheres – from Inquisitional investigations to biblical polemics to popular healing – was conditioned by a shared desire for certainty, and how epistemological crises produced by the religious upheavals of early modern Europe were also linked to the development of new scientific methods. Questions of representation became newly fraught as the production of knowledge increasingly challenged established orthodoxies. The volume focuses on the social and institutional dimensions of inquiry in light of political and cultural challenges, while also foregrounding the Hispanic world, which has often been left out of histories of scepticism and modernity. Featuring essays by historians and literary scholars from Europe and the United States, The Quest for Certainty in Early Modern Europe reconstructs the complexity of early modern epistemological debates across the disciplines, in a variety of cultural, social, and intellectual locales.

Author : Katherine A. East
Publisher : Springer
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319497570

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The Radicalization of Cicero by Katherine A. East Pdf

This book uses a previously overlooked Neo-Latin treatise, Cicero Illustratus, to provide insight into the status and function of the Ciceronian tradition at the beginning of the eighteenth century, and consequently to more broadly illuminate the fate of that tradition in the early Enlightenment. Cicero Illustratus itself is the first subject for inquiry, mined for what its deliberately erudite and colorfully polemical passages of scholarly stratagems reveal about Ciceronian scholarship and the motives for exploring it within the context of early Enlightenment thought. It also includes an analysis of the role played by the Ciceronian tradition in the broader political and radical movements that existed in the Enlightenment, with particular attention paid to Cicero’s unexpectedly prominent position in major political and philosophical Republican and Erastian works. The subject of this book together with the conclusions reached will provide scholars and students with crucial new material relating to the classical tradition, the history of scholarship, and the intellectual history of the early Enlightenment.

Author : Anna Tomaszewska
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350195851

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Kant’s Rational Religion and the Radical Enlightenment by Anna Tomaszewska Pdf

Kant's defence of religion and attempts to reconcile faith with reason position him as a moderate Enlightenment thinker in existing scholarship. Challenging this view and reconceptualising Kant's religion along rationalist lines, Anna Tomaszewska sheds light on its affinities with the ideas of the radical Enlightenment, originating in the work of Baruch Spinoza and understood as a critique of divine revelation. Distinguishing the epistemological, ethical and political aspects of such a critique, Tomaszewska shows how Kant's defence of religion consists of rationalizing its core tenets and establishing morality as the essence of religious faith. She aligns him with other early modern rationalists and German Spinozists and reveals the significance for contemporary political philosophy. Providing reasons for prioritizing freedom of thought, and hence religious criticism, over an unqualified freedom of belief, Kant's theology approximates the secularising tendency of the radical Enlightenment. Here is an understanding of how the shift towards a secular outlook in Western culture was shaped by attempts to rationalize rather than uproot Christianity.

Author : Alexander D. Campbell
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783271849

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The Life and Works of Robert Baillie (1602-1662) by Alexander D. Campbell Pdf

First full study of the life and career of the Glaswegian minister Robert Baillie, establishing his significance and influence.

Author : Jacques Bos,Jan Rotmans
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004471979

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The Long Quarrel by Jacques Bos,Jan Rotmans Pdf

An examination of how debates originating in the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns informed a broader exploration of the relation between past and present in various realms of eighteenth-century thought.

Author : Michael Hunter
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Enlightenment
ISBN : 9780300243581

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The Decline of Magic by Michael Hunter Pdf

A new history that overturns the received wisdom that science displaced magic in Enlightenment Britain--named a Best Book of 2020 by the Financial Times In early modern Britain, belief in prophecies, omens, ghosts, apparitions and fairies was commonplace. Among both educated and ordinary people the absolute existence of a spiritual world was taken for granted. Yet in the eighteenth century such certainties were swept away. Credit for this great change is usually given to science - and in particular to the scientists of the Royal Society. But is this justified? Michael Hunter argues that those pioneering the change in attitude were not scientists but freethinkers. While some scientists defended the reality of supernatural phenomena, these sceptical humanists drew on ancient authors to mount a critique both of orthodox religion and, by extension, of magic and other forms of superstition. Even if the religious heterodoxy of such men tarnished their reputation and postponed the general acceptance of anti-magical views, slowly change did come about. When it did, this owed less to the testing of magic than to the growth of confidence in a stable world in which magic no longer had a place.

Author : Ryu Susato
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780748699810

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Hume's Sceptical Enlightenment by Ryu Susato Pdf

Demonstrates the uniqueness of Hume as an Enlightenment thinker, illustrating how his 'spirit of scepticism' often leads him into seemingly paradoxical positions. This book will be of interest to Hume scholars, intellectual historians of 17th- to 19th-century Europe and those interested in the Enlightenment more widely.

Author : A. Katie Harris
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780271096193

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The Stolen Bones of St. John of Matha by A. Katie Harris Pdf