E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten
Reihe: Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain
Wigelsworth Deism in Enlightenment England
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-84779-356-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
Theology, politics, and Newtonian public science
E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten
Reihe: Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain
ISBN: 978-1-84779-356-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
This is the first complete study of English deists as a group in several decades and it argues for a new interpretation of deism in the English Enlightenment.
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Introduction: The importance of deist theology
1. The meaning of 1689: politics and theology, 1694-1700
2. The issue of succession: politics and theology, 1701-9
3. Matter, motion, and Newtonian public science, 1695-1714
4. The spectre of high-church: politics and theology, 1709-19
5. Matter, motion, and Newtonian public science, 1720-41
6. The age of Walpole: politics and theology, 1720-41
Conclusion: Radical no more
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