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Eleusis and Enlightenment: The Problem of the Mysteries in Eighteenth-Century Thought: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, cartea 351

Autor Ferdinand Saumarez Smith
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 mar 2024
The age of Enlightenment – the so-called age of reason – was also, paradoxically, the age of the Eleusinian mysteries. By attempting to reveal Demeter's secret cult, British, French, and German thinkers and freemasons of the eighteenth century revealed more than they bargained for: the pagan origins of Christian doctrines such as the Trinity and the afterlife, and through the mythical gift of law and agriculture to Eleusis an alternative narrative of the origins of civilisation to that found in the Bible.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789004547544
ISBN-10: 9004547541
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Brill's Studies in Intellectual History


Notă biografică

Ferdinand Saumarez Smith, PhD (2022), King's College London, is a historian of ideas and religion. As the director of Factum Foundation for Digital Technology in Preservation in the UK he has also curated exhibitions and organised cultural preservation projects worldwide.

Cuprins

Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Figures

Introduction
The Age of the Mysteries
1 Freemasonry and Enlightenment
2 Summary of Chapters

1 The Word Mystery
1 Christianity not Mysterious: John Toland
2 The Trinitarian Controversy
3 Toland not Deist
4 ‘Unfolding Nature’s Mysteries, and discoursing on Religion’

2 The Religion of the Patriarchs
1 William Stukeley: The Antiquarian Freemason
2 On the Mysterys
3 The Egyptian Society
4 True Noachida: James Anderson
5 Chance Rays of the Hebrews: Andrew Michael Ramsay

3 Law, Agriculture, and the Afterlife
1 William Warburton and the Ancient Legislators
2 Agriculture after the Deluge: Noël-Antoine Pluche
3 The Origin and the End of Society: Nicolas-Antoine Boulanger

4 The Common Temple of the World
1 The Venemous Cure: Voltaire and Warburton
2 The Festival of Universal Liberty: Antoine Court de Gébelin
3 Illuminating the Heathen World: Johann August Starck
4 The Essence of Religion: Nicolas-Marie Leclerc de Sept-Chênes

5 Christianity Revealed
1 St John the Egyptian: Christian Ernst Wünsch
2 The Elysium of Reason: Charles-François Dupuis

Conclusion
Divided Testaments
Bibliography
Manuscripts
Printed Primary Literature
Secondary Literature
Index