Title: Glory, jest and riddle : religious thought in the Enlightenment /
Authors: Byrne, James M.
Publisher: SCM Press,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Religious thought Europe History; Enlightenment History.; Europe Intellectual life; Europe Intellectual life; Europe Religion; Europe Religion
Abstract: "The aim of this new text book is to situate Enlightenment ideas in context, to show the concerns which gave rise to them and to point out their consequences - which were far-reaching and tied to practical concerns. After two chapters which give a historical account of the period the focus turns to the main figures - Descartes, Pascal, Rousseau and Kant - along with considerations of the rise of deism and the shift from scepticism to atheism. There is also an account of the impact that science began to have on religion."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Changing ideals -- Enlightenment, power and context -- God and the clarity of reason: Rene Descartes -- Burning faith: Blaise Pascal -- The distant God of deism -- From scepticism to atheism -- New light or old?: science and religion -- The morality of innocence: Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Belief within the limits of reason: Immanuel Kant -- Conclusion.