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

• Main Author: Birch, Jonathan C. P. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World
• Subjects: 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...