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Religion and the origins of the German Enlightenment : faith and the reform of learning in the thought of Christian Thomasius /

The Enlightenment continues to be associated with the secularization and de-Christianization of intellectual culture in the West. And yet, religious thought played a far greater role in the emergence of the Enlightenment than is often recognized. In this book Thomas Ahnert analyzes the close relatio...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ahnert, Thomas (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2006.
Series:Rochester studies in philosophy ; 12.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Religion, law, and politics: historical contexts
  • Religion and the limits of philosophy
  • The prince and the church: the critique of Lutheran papalism
  • Ecclesiastical history and the rise of clerical tyranny
  • The history of Roman law
  • Natural law (I): the institutes of divine jurisprudence
  • Natural law (II): the transformation of Christian Thomasiuss natural jurisprudence
  • The interpretation of nature
  • Conclusion: reason and faith in the early German Enlightenment.