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Jesus in an Age of Enlightenment
Radical Gospels from Thomas Hobbes to Thomas Jefferson
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Beschreibung
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 legacyof the Enlightenment at its best.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Jonathan C. P. Birch
Kollektion
- Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World
Zielgruppe
- Research
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2019
Erscheinungsland
- Grossbritannien
Format
- Buch (Hardcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 493
