Author: Peter SterryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
The Rise, Race, and Royalty of the Kingdom of God in the Soul of Man
Author: Peter Sterry'Religion' and the Religions in the English Enlightenment
Author: Peter HarrisonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521892933
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This study examines the changes which took place in the understanding of 'religion' and 'the religions' during the Enlightenment in England, the period when the decisive break with Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance notions of religion occurred. Dr Harrison's view is that the principles of the English Enlightenment not only made a special contribution to our modern understanding of what religion is, but they pioneered, in addition, the 'scientific', or non-religious approach, to religious phenomena. During this period a crisis of authority in the Church necessitated a rational enquiry into the various forms of Christianity, and in addition, into the claims of all religions. This led to a concept of 'religion' (based on 'natural' theology) which could link together the apparently disparate religious beliefs and practices found in the empirical religions.
Cambridge Platonist Spirituality
Author: Charles TaliaferroPublisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809105397
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This anthology collects essays, poetry and treatises by a group of English philosophers from the Age of Reason who were devoted to the goodness of God and the spiritual importance of rationalism. These philosophers, known as the Cambridge Platonists, produced a movement in philosophical theology that flourished around Cambridge University in the seventeenth century and influenced not only Great Britain, but the United States and beyond. Their school of thought emphasized the great goodness of God, the compatibility of reason and faith, an integrated life of virtue, and the deep joy of living in concord with God. This volume introduces and presents the key documents of the Cambridge Platonist movement while setting its thinkers in their historical and religious context: the decades of turbulence and political crises surrounding the English Civil War.
Women, Feminism and Religion in Early Enlightenment England
Author: Sarah ApetreiPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521513960
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A pioneering study of the origins of feminist thought in late seventeenth-century England.
The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science
Author: Peter HarrisonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521000963
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
An examination of the role played by the Bible in the emergence of natural science.
Ravished by Beauty
Author: Belden C. LanePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199831688
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
In this novel exploration of Reformed spirituality, Belden C. Lane uncovers a "green theology" that celebrates a community of jubilant creatures of all languages and species. Lane reveals an ecologically sensitive Calvin who spoke of himself as ''ravished'' by the earth's beauty. He speaks of Puritans who fostered a ''lusty'' spirituality in which Christ figured as a lover who encouraged meditation on the wonders of creation. He presents a Jonathan Edwards who urged a sensuous ''enjoyment'' of God's beauty as the only real way of knowing God. Lane argues for the ''double irony'' of Reformed spirituality, showing that Calvinists who often seem prudish and proper are in fact a people of passionate desire. Similarly, Reformed Christians who appear totally focused on divine transcendence turn out at times to be closet nature mystics, exulting in God's glory everywhere. Lane also demonstrates, however, that a spirituality of desire can be derailed, ending in sexual excess and pantheism. Ecologically, holy longing can be redirected from a contemplation of God's splendor in the earth's beauty to a craving for land itself, resulting in disastrous misuse of its resources. Between the major chapters of the book are engaging personal essays drawn from the author's own love of nature as a Reformed Christian, and providing a thoughtful discussion of contemporary issues of species diversity and the honoring of an earth community.
Church of the restoration
Author: John StoughtonPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
History of Religion in England from the Opening of the Long Parliament to the End of the Eighteenth Century
Author: John StoughtonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385427746
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
History of Religion in England from the Opening of the Long Parliament to the End of the Eighteenth Century
Author: John StoughtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
The church of the Restoration
Author: John StoughtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description