Author: E. D.
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Category : Deism
Languages : en
Pages : 14

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Author: S.J. Barnett
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349270970
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Barnett traces the Christian critique of the Church and its history in Protestant (English) and Catholic (Italian) thought from the Reformation to the Enlightenment. More than one hundred and fifty years of bitter polemic between the two great confessions and their religious dissidents produced an unprecedented, comparative historical and sociological anticlericalism. In the last decades of the seventeenth century, English dissenting thought was pregnant with a devastating critique of the church, which came to be termed the 'Deist' view of Church history: by 1700 the cornerstone of high 'Enlightenment anticlerical thought' was in ascent.

Author: S. J. Barnett
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1847795935
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book offers a critical survey of religious change and its causes in eighteenth-century Europe, and constitutes a challenge to the accepted views in traditional Enlightenment studies. Focusing on Enlightenment Italy, France and England, it illustrates how the canonical view of eighteenth-century religious change has in reality been constructed upon scant evidence and assumption, in particular the idea that the thought of the enlightened led to modernity. For, despite a lack of evidence, one of the fundamental assumptions of Enlightenment studies has been the assertion that there was a vibrant Deist movement which formed the “intellectual solvent” of the eighteenth century. The central claim of this book is that the immense ideological appeal of the traditional birth-of-modernity myth has meant that the actual lack of Deists has been glossed over, and a quite misleading historical view has become entrenched.

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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 696

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Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 504

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Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 1048

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Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 678

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Author: British Library
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 536

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Author: British Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 742

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Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 748

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