num_pages: 688
description: PrefacePreface to the English EditionForewordAbbreviationsIntroductionArriving at the starting point: The cultural situation in the centuries before the Reformation Erasmus The 'Left wing of the Reformation'Martin Bucer The age of the Puritans Lord Herbert of Cherbury: His epistemology &amp; philosophy of religionThomas Hobbes: The philosophical pressuppositions of his Biblical criticism The latitudinarians The beginning of the deistic debatds Forms of apologeticThe heyday of DeismThe late phaseConclusionNotesIndex
language: English
title: The Authority of the Bible and the Rise of the Modern World
titlecomplete: The Authority of the Bible and the Rise of the Modern World
genres: History, Theology
ratings_count: 5
awards: awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Schlegel-Tieck Prize
category: John Bowden
publisher: SCM Press