Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: Volume 1, Whichcote to Wesley - A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England 1660-1780

Klappentext Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion during the period 1660 1780! and the reactions against it. Zusammenfassung The period 1660–1780 saw major changes in the relationship between religion and ethics in English thought. In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The conflict of languages in the mid-seventeeth century; 2. The religion of reason: the latitude-men; 3. The religion of grace: Baxter, Bunyan, and the nonconformist reaction; 4. Affectionate religion: Watts, Doddridge, and the tradition of old dissent; 5. John Wesley and the language of scripture, reason and experience; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Isabel Rivers
• Assisted by: Howard Erskine-Hill (Editor), John J. Richetti (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.10.2005
• EAN: 9780521021340
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02134-0
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Eighteent
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity