Knowledge and Belief in America: Enlightenment Traditions and Modern Religious T

Description: Knowledge and Belief in America by William M. Shea, Peter A. Huff This volume unites the work theologians, historians, literary critics, and philosophers to explore the interaction between Enlightenment ideals and American religion. The essays focus on the Enlightenments effect on the major religious traditions and explore religion in the thinking of such representative figures as Edwards, Emerson, Lincoln, and Eliot. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The Enlightenment values of individual autonomy, democracy, and reason conflict with the religious traditions of community, authority, and traditional learning. Yet in American history the two heritages have been intertwined since the colonial era. This volume unites the work of theologians, historians, literary critics, and philosophers to explore the interaction between Enlightenment ideals and American religion. The essays focus on the Enlightenments effect on the major religious traditions and explore religion in the thinking of such representative figures as Edwards, Emerson, Lincoln, Santayana, Stevens and Eliot. Table of Contents Introduction; Part I. Enlightenment and Religious Traditions: 1. Knowledge and belief in American public life; 2. Enamored against thee by these strange minds: recovering the relations between the Enlightenment in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literary culture; 3. The rise and long life of the Protestant Enlightenment in America; 4. American Catholicism and the Enlightenment ethos; 5. Organizing the past; Part II. Enlightenment and Representative Figures: 6. Puritanism and Enlightenment: Edwards and Franklin; 7. Emersons constitutional amending: reading fate; 8. Lincoln and modernity; 9. Stuck between debility and demand: religion and Enlightenment traditions among the pragmatists; 10. Wallace Stevens, T. S. Eliot, and the space between them; Part III. The End of the Enlightenment: 11. The Enlightenment is not over; 12. Modernity, anti-modernity, and post-modernity in the American setting; 13. Are we beyond the Enlightenment horizon? Review "There are few books that so well capture the importance of Enlightenment assumptions for contemporary American religious discourse as this volume does. Highly recommended." The Readers Review "This volume deserves serious attention. It deepens our understanding of American Enlightenment and religious tradition." Derek S. Jeffreys, Anglican Theological Review Promotional This volume of essays explores the interaction between Enlightenment ideals and American religion. Review Quote "This volume deserves serious attention. It deepens our understanding of American Enlightenment and religious tradition." Derek S. Jeffreys, Anglican Theological Review Promotional "Headline" This volume of essays explores the interaction between Enlightenment ideals and American religion. Description for Bookstore This volume unites the work theologians, historians, literary critics, and philosophers to explore the interaction between Enlightenment ideals and American religion. The essays focus on the Enlightenments effect on the major religious traditions and explore religion in the thinking of such representative figures as Edwards, Emerson, Lincoln, and Eliot. Description for Library This volume unites the work theologians, historians, literary critics, and philosophers to explore the interaction between Enlightenment ideals and American religion. The essays focus on the Enlightenments effect on the major religious traditions and explore religion in the thinking of such representative figures as Edwards, Emerson, Lincoln, and Eliot. Details ISBN0521533287 Pages 376 Publisher Cambridge University Press Series Woodrow Wilson Center Press Language English ISBN-10 0521533287 ISBN-13 9780521533287 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 277.3 Year 2003 Imprint Cambridge University Press Subtitle Enlightenment Traditions and Modern Religious Thought Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Author Peter A. Huff Edited by Peter A. Huff Short Title KNOWLEDGE & BELIEF IN AMER REV Edition Description Revised Affiliation University of Puget Sound, Washington Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises DOI 10.1604/9780521533287 UK Release Date 2003-02-13 AU Release Date 2003-02-13 NZ Release Date 2003-02-13 Publication Date 2003-02-13 Alternative 9780521550116 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:91366740;

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