Jesus in an Age of Enlightenment - Radical Gospels from Thomas Hobbes to Thomas Jefferson (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)

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.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World
Release date:	July 2019
First published:	2019
Authors:	Jonathan C P Birch
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	493
Edition:	1st ed. 2019
ISBN-13:	978-1-137-51275-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > The historical Jesus Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, c 1600 to c 1800 Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Christian theology > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, c 1600 to c 1800 Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Christian theology > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > The historical Jesus Books > Christianity > The Historical Jesus Books > Christianity > Christian theology
LSN:	1-137-51275-X
Barcode:	9781137512758

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