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The Bible and Reason is organized around actual topics of
theological controversy from 1660 to 1700: what it means to say
that Scripture is true, how Scripture and polity are related, how
to conceive the canon of the Scripture, and how to understand
challenges to the rational theology in question. Based on the
writings of John Tillotson, Edward Stillingfleet, Isaac Barrow, and
Robert South, Gerard Reedy's book integrates their theories with
the ideas and practices of John Dryden, John Locke, Edward Hyde,
the earl of Clarendon, and other contemporary writers and contrasts
this traditional scriptural interpretation with the new rationalism
of Thomas Hobbes, Spinoza, John Toland, and Richard Simon. In
contrast with the Puritan tradition, the Anglican establishment
sponsored Scripture reading based not on the Inner Light, but on a
public verification of interpretation, a "rational" method seen in
the several proofs Anglicans proposed for the truth of Scripture,
in their responses to some assessments of the integrity of
Scripture, and in their argument with anti-Trinitarians. The Bible
and Reason is of interest to scholars in seventeenth-century
English literature and philosophy, historians of the Bible and
modern religion, and researchers in intellectual history.
Robert South (1634-1716) was one of the great Anglican writers and
preachers of his age. A contemporary of Dryden and Locke, he faced
the profound political and philosophical changes taking place at
the beginning of the Enlightenment in England. With the
interdependence of Church and State forcing a conjunction of
religious and political issues, South's life and work as a preacher
show him reacting to changes in civil and ecclesiastical polity
over the course of his active public life. Gerard Reedy's book, the
first major study of South, makes a strong case for the importance
of his sermons, their complexity, beauty and wit, and their place
in the history of post-Restoration English literature. Discussing
sermons of South which deal with his theory of politics, language,
the sacrament and mystery, Reedy reintroduces us to a lively and
seminal master of prose, politics and theology in the late Stuart
era.
Theology and Literature in the Age of Johnson: Resisting Secularism
contains seventeen essays exploring the complex relationships
between literary intentions and theological concerns of authors
writing in the second half of the eighteenth century. The diversity
of literary forms and subjects, from Fielding and Richardson to
Burke and Wollstonecraft, is matched by a diversity of approaches
and theologies. To argue that the age "resisted secularism" is by
no means to argue that resistance was blindly doctrinal or rigidly
uniform. The many ways secularism could be resisted is the subject
of the collection.
Robert South (1634-1716) was one of the great Anglican writers and
preachers of his age. A contemporary of Dryden and Locke, he faced
the profound political and philosophical changes taking place at
the beginning of the Enlightenment in England. With the
interdependence of Church and State forcing a conjunction of
religious and political issues, South's life and work as a preacher
show him reacting to changes in civil and ecclesiastical polity
over the course of his active public life. Gerard Reedy's book, the
first major study of South, makes a strong case for the importance
of his sermons, their complexity, beauty and wit, and their place
in the history of post-Restoration English literature. Discussing
sermons of South which deal with his theory of politics, language,
the sacrament and mystery, Reedy reintroduces us to a lively and
seminal master of prose, politics and theology in the late Stuart
era.
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