The Rise And Fall Of Theological Enlightenment
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The Rise And Fall Of Theological Enlightenment
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Author : Jeffrey D. Burson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
The Rise And Fall Of Theological Enlightenment written by Jeffrey D. Burson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Catholic Church and philosophy categories.
Culture Of Enlightening
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Author : Jeffrey D. Burson
language : en
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
Release Date : 2019-08-01
Culture Of Enlightening written by Jeffrey D. Burson and has been published by University of Notre Dame Pess this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-01 with History categories.
Recent scholarly and popular attempts to define the Enlightenment, account for its diversity, and evaluate its historical significance suffer from a surprising lack of consensus at a time when the social and political challenges of today cry out for a more comprehensive and serviceable understanding of its importance. This book argues that regnant notions of the Enlightenment, the Radical Enlightenment, and the multitude of regional and religious enlightenments proposed by scholars all share an entangled intellectual genealogy rooted in a broader revolutionary "culture of enlightening" that took shape over the long-arc of intellectual history from the waning of the sixteenth-century Reformations to the dawn of the Atlantic Revolutionary era. Generated in competition for a changing readership and forged in dialog and conflict, dynamic and diverse notions of what it meant to be enlightened constituted a broader culture of enlightening from which the more familiar strains of the Enlightenment emerged, often ironically and accidentally, from originally religious impulses and theological questioning. By adapting, for the first time, methodological insights from the scholarship of historical entanglement (l'histoire croisée) to the study of the Enlightenment, this book provides a new interpretation of the European republic of letters from the late 1600s through the 1700s by focusing on the lived experience of the long-neglected Catholic theologian, historian, and contributor to Diderot's Encyclopédie, Abbé Claude Yvon. The ambivalent historical memory of Yvon, as well as the eclectic and global array of his sources and endeavors, Burson argues, can serve as a gauge for evaluating historical transformations in the surprisingly diverse ways in which eighteenth-century individuals spoke about enlightening human reason, religion, and society. Ultimately, Burson provocatively claims that even the most radical fruits of the Enlightenment can be understood as the unintended offspring of a revolution in theology and the cultural history of religious experience.
The Skeptical Enlightenment
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Author : Jeffrey D. Burson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
The Skeptical Enlightenment written by Jeffrey D. Burson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 categories.
Although many historical narratives often describe the eighteenth century as an unalloyed 'Age of Reason', Enlightenment thinkers continued to grapple with the challenges posed by the revival and spread of philosophical skepticism. The imperative to overcome doubt and uncertainty informed some of the most innovative characteristics of eighteenth-century intellectual culture, including not only debates about epistemology and metaphysics but also matters of jurisprudence, theology, history, moral philosophy, and politics. Thinkers of this period debated about, established, and productively worked for progress within the parameters of the increasingly circumscribed boundaries of human reason. No longer considered innate and consistently perfect, reason instead became conceived as a faculty that was inherently fallible, limited by personal experiences, and in need of improvement throughout the course of any individual's life. In its depiction of a complicated, variegated, and diverse Enlightenment culture, this volume examines the process by which philosophical skepticism was challenged and gradually tamed to bring about an anxious confidence in the powers of human understanding. The various contributions collectively demonstrate that philosophical skepticism, and not simply unshakable confidence in the powers of reason or the optimistic assumption about inevitable human improvement, was, in fact, the crucible of the Enlightenment process itself. 'All in all, this is a volume which should be read by every scholar of the eighteenth century, of the history of ideas, and of the history of religion.''The editors are to be congratulated for bringing to fruition this volume of essays, and for making a clear and convincing argument for the importance of skepticism in the Enlightenment.'Dorinda Outram, H-France Review H-France Review Jeffrey D. Burson is Associate Professor of French History and the Enlightenment at Georgia Southern University. He is the author of 'The Rise and Fall of Theological Enlightenment: Jean-Martin de Prades and Ideological Polarization in Eighteenth-Century France' (University of Notre Dame Press, 2010), and 'The Culture of Enlightening and the Entangled Life of Abbé Claude Yvon' (University of Notre Dame Press, 2019), in addition to numerous articles and chapters in edited collections of essays. He is co-editor, with Ulrich L. Lehner, of 'Enlightenment and Catholicism in Europe: A Transnational History' (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014) and, with Jonathan Wright, of 'The Jesuit Suppression in Global Context: Causes, Events, and Consequences' (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Anton M. Matytsin is Assistant Professor of European History at Kenyon College. He is the author of 'The Specter of Skepticism in the Age of Enlightenment' (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016) and co-editor, with Dan Edelstein, of 'Let There Be Enlightenment: The Religious and Mystical Sources of Rationality' (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018).
The Culture Of Enlightening
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Author : Jeffrey D. Burson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
The Culture Of Enlightening written by Jeffrey D. Burson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Encyclopedists categories.
Burson examines Yvon's work in order to explore broader trends in the diverse ways eighteenth-century individuals spoke about enlightening human reason, religion, and society.
Berruyer S Bible
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Author : Daniel J. Watkins
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2021-06-01
Berruyer S Bible written by Daniel J. Watkins and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-01 with History categories.
The French Jesuit Isaac-Joseph Berruyer's Histoire du peuple de Dieu was an ambitious attempt to connect the ideas of the Enlightenment with the theology of the Catholic Church. A paraphrase of the Bible written in vernacular French, the Histoire promoted progress, the pursuit of happiness, the fundamental goodness of humanity, and the capacity of nature to shape moral human beings. Berruyer aimed to update the Bible for a new age, but his work unleashed a furor that ended with the expulsion of the Jesuits from France. Berruyer's Bible offers a fresh perspective on the history of the Catholic Enlightenment. By exploring the rise and fall of Berruyer's Histoire, Daniel Watkins reveals how Catholic attempts to assimilate Enlightenment ideas caused conflicts within the church and between the church and the French state. Berruyer's Bible flips the traditional narrative of the Enlightenment on its head by showing that the secularization of French society and the political decline of the Catholic Church were due not solely to the external assaults of anti-clerical philosophes but also to the internal discord caused by Catholic theologians themselves. Built upon extensive research in archives across Western Europe and the United States, Berruyer's Bible paints a vivid picture of the tumultuous intellectual world of the Catholic Church and the power of radical ideas that shaped the church throughout the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and beyond.
The Skeptical Enlightenment
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Author : Jeffrey D. Burson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-03-31
The Skeptical Enlightenment written by Jeffrey D. Burson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-31 with categories.
Althoughmany historical narratives often describe the eighteenth century as an unalloyed'Age of Reason', Enlightenment thinkers continued to grapple with thechallenges posed by the revival and spread of philosophical skepticism. Theimperative to overcome doubt and uncertainty informed some of the mostinnovative characteristics of eighteenth-century intellectual culture,including not only debates about epistemology and metaphysics but also mattersof jurisprudence, theology, history, moral philosophy, and politics. Thinkersof this period debated about, established, and productively worked for progresswithin the parameters of the increasingly circumscribed boundaries of humanreason. No longer considered innate and consistently perfect, reason insteadbecame conceived as a faculty that was inherently fallible, limited by personalexperiences, and in need of improvement throughout the course of anyindividual's life. In its depictionof a complicated, variegated, and diverse Enlightenment culture, this volume examines the process by whichphilosophical skepticism was challenged and gradually tamed to bring about ananxious confidence in the powers of human understanding. The variouscontributions collectively demonstrate that philosophical skepticism, andnot simply unshakable confidence in the powers of reason or the optimisticassumption about inevitable human improvement, was, in fact, the crucible ofthe Enlightenment process itself.
The Jesuit Suppression In Global Context
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Author : Jeffrey D. Burson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-10-29
The Jesuit Suppression In Global Context written by Jeffrey D. Burson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-29 with History categories.
This volume analyses the causes and consequences of the Jesuit Suppression, one of the most dramatic events in eighteenth-century history.
The Rise And Fall Of Theological Enlightenment
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Author : Jeffrey D. Burson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
The Rise And Fall Of Theological Enlightenment written by Jeffrey D. Burson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Catholic Church and philosophy categories.
Burson analyzes the history of the French Enlightenment and its relationship to the French Revolution in regards to Theological Enlightenment discourses of the time.
A Companion To The Catholic Enlightenment In Europe
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Author : Ulrich L. Lehner
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2010
A Companion To The Catholic Enlightenment In Europe written by Ulrich L. Lehner and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Religion categories.
This book offers the first comprehensive overview of the Catholic Enlightenment in Europe. It surveys the diversity of views about the structure and nature of the movement, pointing toward the possibilities for further research. The volume presents a series of comprehensive treatments on the process and interpretation of Catholic Enlightenment in France, Spain, Portugal, Poland, the Holy Roman Empire, Malta, Italy and the Habsburg territories. An introductory overview explores the varied meanings of Catholic Enlightenment and situates them in a series of intellectual and social contexts. The topics covered in this book are crucial for a proper understanding of the role and place not only of Catholicism in the eighteenth century, but also for the social and religious history of Modern Europe.
God In The Enlightenment
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Author : William J. Bulman
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-04-25
God In The Enlightenment written by William J. Bulman and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-25 with Religion categories.
We have long been taught that the Enlightenment was an attempt to free the world from the clutches of Christian civilization and make it safe for philosophy. The lesson has been well learned. In today's culture wars, both liberals and their conservative enemies, inside and outside the academy, rest their claims about the present on the notion that the Enlightenment was a secularist movement of philosophically driven emancipation. Historians have had doubts about the accuracy of this portrait for some time, but they have never managed to furnish a viable alternative to it-for themselves, for scholars interested in matters of church and state, or for the public at large. In this book, William J. Bulman and Robert G. Ingram bring together recent scholarship from distinguished experts in history, theology, and literature to make clear that God not only survived the Enlightenment but thrived within it as well. The Enlightenment was not a radical break from the past in which Europeans jettisoned their intellectual and institutional inheritance. It was, to be sure, a moment of great change, but one in which the characteristic convictions and traditions of the Renaissance and Reformation were perpetuated to the point of transformation, in the wake of the Wars of Religion and during the early phases of globalization. The Enlightenment's primary imperatives were not freedom and irreligion but peace and prosperity. As a result, Enlightenment could be Christian, communitarian, or authoritarian as easily as it could be atheistic, individualistic, or libertarian. Honing in on the intellectual crisis of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries while moving from Spinoza to Kant and from India to Peru, God in the Enlightenment takes a prism to the age of lights.