Jesus in an Age of Enlightenment
Radical Gospels from Thomas Hobbes to Thomas Jefferson
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 Enligh…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-137-51276-5
- EAN: 9781137512765
- Produktnummer: 31955678
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 493 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 7'611 KB
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2019
- Abbildungen: 4 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, Bibliographie
Über den Autor
Jonathan C P Birch teaches in the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK. He is an intellectual historian who specialises in biblical interpretation and Western philosophy.
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