The religious Enlightenment  -  David Jan Sorkin

Protestants, Jews, and Catholics from London to Vienna

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In intellectual and political culture today, the Enlightenment is routinely celebrated as the starting point of modernity and secular rationalism, or demonized as the source of a godless liberalism in conflict with religious faith. In The Religious Enlightenment, David Sorkin alters our understanding by showing that the Enlightenment, at its heart, was religious in nature.

Sorkin examines the lives and ideas of influential Protestant, Jewish, and Catholic theologians of the Enlightenment, such as William War...
2008 Taal: Engels zie alle details...

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2008 Uitgever: Princeton University Press 339 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0691135029 ISBN-13: 9780691135021