Theology and the Enlightenment

A Critical Enquiry into Enlightenment Theology and Its Reception

The Rev. Professor Paul Avis (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

416 Seiten

2022
T.& T.Clark Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-567-70564-8 (ISBN)

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Challenging the common assumption that the Enlightenment of the late seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries was an essentially secular, irreligious and atheistic movement, this book critiques this standard interpretation as based on a narrow view of Enlightenment sources.

Building on the work of revisionist historians, this volume takes the argument squarely into the theological domain, whether Anglican, Dissenting, Lutheran or deistic, whilst also noting that the Enlightenment deeply affected Roman Catholic and Jewish theologies. It challenges the stereotype of ‘Enlightenment rationalism’, and the penultimate chapter brings out the biblical and ecclesial roots of the image of enlightenment and reclaims it for Christian faith.

Paul Avis is Honorary Professor in the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, UK, as well as Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Exeter, UK, and Editor-in-Chief of Ecclesiology.

Preface

Chapter 1:
Engaging the Enlightenment

Chapter 2:
Scapegoating the Enlightenment

Chapter 3:
A Virtuous Enlightenment

Chapter 4:
The Enlightenment and Religion

Chapter 5:
The Anglican Enlightenment

Chapter 6:
Enlightenment History and the Bible

Chapter 7:
The Enlightenment in the Frame of Christian Theology

Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.01.2023
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	0-567-70564-1 / 0567705641
ISBN-13	978-0-567-70564-8 / 9780567705648
Zustand	Neuware