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God in the Enlightenment (Hardcover)
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God in the Enlightenment (Hardcover)
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We have long been taught that the Enlightenment was an attempt to
free the world from the clutches of Christian civilization and make
it safe for philosophy. The lesson has been well learned--in
today's culture wars, both liberals and their conservative enemies,
inside and outside the academy, rest their claims about the present
on the notion that the Enlightenment was a secularist movement of
philosophically-driven emancipation. Historians have had doubts
about the accuracy of this portrait for some time, but they have
never managed to furnish a viable alternative to it--for
themselves, for scholars interested in matters of church and state,
or for the public at large. In this book, William J. Bulman and
Robert Ingram bring together recent scholarship from distinguished
experts in history, theology, and literature to make clear that God
not only survived the Enlightenment, but thrived within it as well.
The Enlightenment was not a radical break from the past in which
Europeans jettisoned their intellectual and institutional
inheritance. It was, to be sure, a moment of great change, but one
in which the characteristic convictions and traditions of the
Renaissance and Reformation were perpetuated to the point of
transformation, in the wake of the Wars of Religion and during the
early phases of globalization. Its primary imperatives were not
freedom and irreligion but peace and prosperity. As a result, it
could be Christian, communitarian, or authoritarian as easily as it
could be atheist, individualist, or libertarian. Honing in on the
intellectual crisis of late seventeenth and early eighteenth
centuries while moving everywhere from Spinoza to Kant and from
India to Peru, God in the Enlightenment offers a spectral view of
the age of lights.
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