Jesus in an Age of Enlightenment [electronic resource] : Radical Gospels from Thomas Hobbes to Thomas Jefferson / by Jonathan C. P. Birch.

Birch, Jonathan C. P.
Jesus in an Age of Enlightenment
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9781137512765 978-1-137-51276-5
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/1724
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2019.
Yayın Bilgisi
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Fiziksel Niteleme
XIX, 493 p. online resource.
Dizi
Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World, 2634-5846
İçindekiler Notu
Chapter One: Introduction -- Chapter Two: Imagining Enlightenment – The Historical and Historiographical Context -- Chapter Three: Overture to a Moral Messiah - God, Goodness, and the Heretical Tendency -- Chapter Four: Material Messiah - Hobbes, Heresy, and a Kingdom Not of This World -- Chapter Five: ‘No Spirit No God’ - From the Light of Christ to the Age of Enlightenment -- Chapter Six: What Would Jesus Tolerate? - Reason and Revelation in Spinoza, Locke, and Bayle -- Chapter Seven: The Unity of God and the Wisdom of Christ - The Religious Enlightenments of Joseph Priestley and Thomas Jefferson -- Chapter Eight: Postscript and Conclusion.
Özet, vb.
This book explores the religious concerns of Enlightenment thinkers from Thomas Hobbes to Thomas Jefferson. Using an innovative method, the study illuminates the intellectual history of the age through interpretations of Jesus between c.1750 and c.1826. The book demonstrates the persistence of theology in modern philosophy and the projects of social reform and amelioration associated with the Enlightenment. At the core of many of these projects was a robust moral-theological realism, sometimes manifest in a natural law ethic, but always associated with Jesus and a commitment to the sovereign goodness of God. This ethical orientation in Enlightenment discourse is found in a range of different metaphysical and political identities (dualist and monist; progressive and radical) which intersect with earlier ‘heretical’ tendencies in Christian thought (Arianism, Pelagianism, and Marcionism). This intellectual matrix helped to produce the discourses of irenic toleration which are a legacyof the Enlightenment at its best. .
Konu
Civilization __ History.
Theology.
Religion __ History.
Intellectual life __ History.
Political science __ Philosophy.
Cultural History.
Christian Theology.
History of Religion.
Intellectual History.
Political Philosophy.