Religion and the origins of the German Enlightenment : faith and the reform of learning in the thought of Christian Thomasius /
The Enlightenment continues to be associated with the secularization and de-Christianization of intellectual culture in the West. And yet, religious thought played a far greater role in the emergence of the Enlightenment than is often recognized. In this book Thomas Ahnert analyzes the close relatio...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Suffolk :
Boydell & Brewer,
2006.
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| Series: | Rochester studies in philosophy ;
12. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Religion, law, and politics: historical contexts
- Religion and the limits of philosophy
- The prince and the church: the critique of Lutheran papalism
- Ecclesiastical history and the rise of clerical tyranny
- The history of Roman law
- Natural law (I): the institutes of divine jurisprudence
- Natural law (II): the transformation of Christian Thomasiuss natural jurisprudence
- The interpretation of nature
- Conclusion: reason and faith in the early German Enlightenment.
