Rational Dissenters in Late Eighteenth-century England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rational Dissenters in Late Eighteenth-century England write by Valerie Smith. This book was released on 2021. Rational Dissenters in Late Eighteenth-century England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rational Dissent was a branch of Protestant religious nonconformity which emerged to prominence in England between c. 1770 and c. 1800. While small, the movement provoked fierce opposition from both Anglicans and Orthodox Dissenters.
Enlightenment and Religion
Enlightenment and Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Enlightenment and Religion write by Knud Haakonssen. This book was released on 2006-11-02. Enlightenment and Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A wide-ranging collection of studies on Enlightenment and religion in eighteenth-century England.
Eighteenth-Century Dissent and Cambridge Platonism
Eighteenth-Century Dissent and Cambridge Platonism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eighteenth-Century Dissent and Cambridge Platonism write by Louise Hickman. This book was released on 2017-05-12. Eighteenth-Century Dissent and Cambridge Platonism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Eighteenth-Century Dissent and Cambridge Platonism identifies an ethically and politically engaged philosophy of religion in eighteenth century Rational Dissent, particularly in the work of Richard Price (1723-1791), and in the radical thought of Mary Wollstonecraft. It traces their ethico-political account of reason, natural theology and human freedom back to seventeenth century Cambridge Platonism and thereby shows how popular histories of the philosophy of religion in modernity have been over-determined both by analytic philosophy of religion and by its critics. The eighteenth century has typically been portrayed as an age of reason, defined as a project of rationalism, liberalism and increasing secularisation, leading inevitably to nihilism and the collapse of modernity. Within this narrative, the Rational Dissenters have been accused of being the culmination of eighteenth-century rationalism in Britain, epitomising the philosophy of modernity. This book challenges this reading of history by highlighting the importance of teleology, deiformity, the immutability of goodness and the divinity of reason within the tradition of Rational Dissent, and it demonstrates that the philosophy and ethics of both Price and Wollstonecraft are profoundly theological. Price’s philosophy of political liberty, and Wollstonecraft’s feminism, both grounded in a Platonic conception of freedom, are perfectionist and radical rather than liberal. This has important implications for understanding the political nature of eighteenth-century philosophical theology: these thinkers represent not so much a shaking off of religion by secular rationality but a challenge to religious and political hegemony. By distinguishing Price and Wollstonecraft from other forms of rationalism including deism and Socinianism, this book takes issue with the popular division of eighteenth-century philosophy into rationalistic and empirical strands and, through considering the legacy of Cambridge Platonism, draws attention to an alternative philosophy of religion that lies between both empiricism and discursive inference.
Dissenting Histories
Dissenting Histories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dissenting Histories write by John Seed. This book was released on 2008-11-26. Dissenting Histories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first major study of the historical writings of religious dissenters in England between the 1690s and the 1790s, this book redefines the way we understand religious and political identities in the eighteenth century.Dissenting Histories provides a synoptic overview of the development of religious dissent in England between the Restoration and the early nineteenth century, using Dissenters' writings to open up new and different perspectives on how the past was perceived in this period. These writings are located within the wider political culture and the author explores how the long shadow of 'the Great Rebellion' of the 1640s stretched across the division between Church and Dissent.The author is not simply concerned with history as a representation of the past, but history also as part of the bitterly divided collective memory of the present. Focusing on the relationship between the history that historians wrote, and the history that men and women experienced, John Seed provides the reader with new perspectives on eighteenth-century England.
Rational Dissent in the Late Eighteenth Century with Particular Reference to the Growth of Toleration
Rational Dissent in the Late Eighteenth Century with Particular Reference to the Growth of Toleration - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rational Dissent in the Late Eighteenth Century with Particular Reference to the Growth of Toleration write by M. H. Fitzpatrick. This book was released on 1982. Rational Dissent in the Late Eighteenth Century with Particular Reference to the Growth of Toleration available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
