Anti-Atheism in Early Modern England 1580-1720

The Atheist Answered and His Error Confuted

AvKenneth Sheppard

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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Beskrivning

Atheists generated widespread anxieties between the Reformation and the Enlightenment. In response to such anxieties a distinct genre of religious apologetics emerged in England between 1580 and 1720. By examining the form and the content of the confutation of atheism, Anti-Atheism in Early Modern England demonstrates the prevalence of patterned assumptions and arguments about who an atheist was and what an atheist was supposed to believe, outlines and analyzes the major arguments against atheists, and traces the important changes and challenges to this apologetic discourse in the early Enlightenment.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-06-05
Mått:155 x 235 x 25 mm
Vikt:658 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in the History of Christian Traditions
Antal sidor:340
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004265417

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Kenneth Sheppard, Ph.D (2012), is currently a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Concordia university.

Recensioner i media

“This enormously valuable addition to the historiography of religious and moral thought is packed with sources and conclusions of significance far beyond England.”Ada Palmer, University of Chicago. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 70, No. 2 (Summer 2017), pp. 780-782.“The volume is elegantly written and immaculately edited … and may serve as an excellent avenue into a new kind of theologically aware historical “thick description” of the complex discursive fields of early modernity”. Philipp Reisner, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. In: Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 48, No 1 (Spring 2017), pp. 192-193.

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1.Anxieties About Atheism2.“The Atheist Answered and His Error Confuted”3.Atheist Epicurus4.Anti-Atheist Plato5.Atheism and Apostasy 6.Atheism and Society7.Atheism and Happiness8.From Confutation to CriticismConclusionBibliographyIndex