This innovative book reveals how Enlightened writers in England, both lay and clerical, proclaimed public support for Christianity by transforming it into a civil religion, despite the famous claim of Jean-Jacques Rousseau that Christians professed an uncivil faith.
This innovative book reveals how Enlightened writers in England, both lay and clerical, proclaimed public support for Christianity by transforming it into a civil religion, despite the famous claim of Jean-Jacques Rousseau that Christians professed an uncivil faith.
ASHLEY WALSH is Lecturer in Early Modern History at Cardiff University.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Hanoverian Civil Religion and its Intellectual Resources 1: Building Athens from Jerusalem: Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury 2: The Politics of Priestcraft: John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon 3: The Church-State Alliance: Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke, and William Warburton 4: The Civil Faith of Common Sense: David Hume 5: The Legacy of Ancient Rome: Edward Gibbon and Conyers Middleton 6: Subscription, Reform, and Dissent: Civil Religion and Enlightened Divinity during the Late Eighteenth Century Conclusion: Hanoverian Civil Religion and its Aftermath Bibliography
Introduction: Hanoverian Civil Religion and its Intellectual Resources 1: Building Athens from Jerusalem: Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury 2: The Politics of Priestcraft: John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon 3: The Church-State Alliance: Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke, and William Warburton 4: The Civil Faith of Common Sense: David Hume 5: The Legacy of Ancient Rome: Edward Gibbon and Conyers Middleton 6: Subscription, Reform, and Dissent: Civil Religion and Enlightened Divinity during the Late Eighteenth Century Conclusion: Hanoverian Civil Religion and its Aftermath Bibliography
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