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Religion and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century England: Theological Debate from Locke to Burke

Autor B. W. Young
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 mar 1998
B. W. Young describes and analyses the intellectual culture of the eighteenth-century Church of England, in particular relation to those developments traditionally described as constituting the Enlightenment. It challenges conventional perceptions of an intellectually moribund institution by contextualising the polemical and scholarly debates in which churchmen engaged. In particular, it delineates the vigorous clerical culture in which much eighteenth-century thought evolved. The book traces the creation of a self-consciously enlightened tradition within Anglicanism, which drew on Erasmianism, seventeenth-century eirenicism and the legacy of Locke. By emphasizing the variety of its intellectual life, the book challenges those notions of Enlightenment which advance predominantly political interpretations of this period. Thus, eighteenth-century critics of the Enlightenment, notably those who contributed to a burgeoning interest in mysticism, are equally integral to this study.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198269427
ISBN-10: 0198269420
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 145 x 224 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: Clarendon Press
Colecția Clarendon Press
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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an important addition to our developing understanding of both the English Enlightenment and the Enlightenment more generally ... valuable discussion of the attempt to change the clerical requirement of subscription to the Thirty-nine Articles. In its mastery of the issues and of the literature this supersedes all previous accounts ... Young does chart new territory; his study of English clerical culture in its own terms is a work of fine scholarship and of original challenging insights. It is an important addition to the literature on the Enlightenment in England and a valuable contribution to the debate upon the nature of the Enlightenment.
the well-worn myth of intellectual progress has now been subjected to critical scrutiny, and B. W. Young's book is an intelligent and persuasive example of the new approach.
Young demonstrates not only how central religion was to enlightenment discourse in England, but also how complex were the alignments of religious, intellectual and political committments. ... This book is a detailed, close reading of a number of neglected writers ... serves to restore a more whole picture of eighteenth-century intellectual life and to challenge the commonplace caricature of religion as a reactionary or decaying influence in the Age of Reason.
Young never allows the reader to settle into the groove of a normal book on the Enlightenment. Throughout the book, Young ties the reader down to interesting thinkers, letting them speak to us using their own categories and perspectives - not ours.
a closely-argued and intelligent book which seeks to redirect the study of eighteenth-century English intellectual history,
'...fully researched study...'