Reason, Grace, and Sentiment
Subtitle: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England 16601780 (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780521021340
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; British Isles; Christianity - General; Eastern European; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / Eastern European; Literary Criticism : Eastern European; Literary Criticism : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Religion / Christianity; Religious thought--England--17th century
First sentence: The modern reader of religious and moral writing in the mid-seventeenth century rapidly becomes aware of paradox: the extraordinary range and diversity of appeals to religious and moral authority in the period is combined with widespread confidence that apparent conflict can be resolved if only language is employed as it should be.