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Informationen zum Autor Christopher J. Walker was educated at Lancing College and the University of Oxford. A former editor at Penguin Books, he won a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship to write Armenia:The Survival of a Nation (1980 and 1990). This was followed by Visions of Ararat: Writings on Armenia (I.B.Tauris, 1997 and 2005), Oliver Baldwin: A Life of Dissent (2003) and Islam and the West: A Dissonant Harmony of Civilizations (2005). He has also contributed to the prestigious UCLA conferenceseries, Historic Armenian Cities and Provinces, edited by Richard G. Hovannisian Klappentext Christopher J Walker here explores the tensions between the forces of reason and revelation within English religion in the volatile period following the end of the Civil War. Ranging widely across the ideas of the period the author shows that the thinking of the radical figures of the era were not antipathetic to Christian faith but integral to it. Zusammenfassung Christopher J Walker here explores the tensions between the forces of reason and revelation within English religion in the volatile period following the end of the Civil War. Ranging widely across the ideas of the period the author shows that the thinking of the radical figures of the era were not antipathetic to Christian faith but integral to it. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface vii Acknowledgements ix Part I : Reason alongside Religion Chapter 1 'Yet Reason must assist too..' 3 Chapter 2 'When Sin and Son were not' 29 Chapter 3 Radical Reformers: 'He who loves is greater than he who believes' 57 Chapter 4 Re-thinking Faith 93 Chapter 5 'Trinunities, Coessentialities, Modalities...monstrous terms' 111 Chapter 6 A Climate of Repression 133 Part II: The Trinitarian Controversy, 1690-98 Chapter 7 'Then in Christ the Father': A Quaker Puzzle 147 Chapter 8 A Conflict Erupts 157 Chapter 9 Anglicans Disunited 185 Chapter 10 An Oxford Tempest 195 Chapter 11 An Injunction and an Act 213 Epilogue 239 Notes 253 Bibliography 277 Index 285 ...
