Enlightenment and Modernity: The English Deists and Reform

ISBN-13: 9781851966356 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 240 str.

Wayne Hudson

Opis

The writers known as the English deists were not simply religious controversialists, but agents of reform who contributed to the emergence of modernity. This title claims that these writers advocated a failed ideology which itself declined after 1730. It argues for an evolution of their ideas into a more modern form.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Deism, Enlightenment and Modernity; Part I Problematizing Revealed Religion; Chapter 2 Christianity Challenged; Chapter 3 Two Clerical Critics; Chapter 4 The Diffusion of Disbelief; Part II Agents of Reform; Chapter 5 ‘Philosophy’ and Reform; Chapter 6 ‘Religion’ and Modernity; conclusion Conclusion Shaftesbury And Bolingbroke;

O autorze

Wayne Hudson