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Auteur(s) : Birch, Jonathan C. P.
Titre(s) : Jesus in an Age of Enlightenment [Texte imprimé] : radical gospels from Thomas Hobbes to Thomas Jefferson / Jonathan C. P. Birch
Publication : London : Palgrave Macmillan, copyright 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIX-493 p.)
Collection : Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World Ser
Lien à la collection : Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic world
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 375-448. Index
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 legacy of the Enlightenment at its
best
Sujet(s) : Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679) -- Christianisme
Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826) -- Christianisme
Jésus-Christ -- Pensée politique et sociale
Indice(s) Dewey :
232.09 (23e éd.) = Jésus-Christ et sa famille - Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781137512765. - ISBN 1137512768 (rel.). - ISBN 113751275X (erroné). - ISBN 9781137512758
(erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb457033885
Notice n° :
FRBNF45703388
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Table des matières : 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.
