Jesus in an Age of Enlightenment Radical Gospels from Thomas Hobbes to Thomas Jefferson /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Birch, Jonathan C. P. (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World
• Θέματα: Civilization-History.; Theology.; Religion-History.; Intellectual life-History.; Political philosophy.; Cultural History.; Christian Theology.; History of Religion.; Intellectual Studies.; Political Philosophy.

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 theol...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.