From Puritanism to the age of reason
Subtitle: a study of changes in religious thought within the Church of England, 1660 to 1700.
Publisher: University Press
Published: 1950
Place of publication: Cambridge [Eng.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: Church of England -- History -- 17th century.; Religious thought -- England.
Description: "We recognize instinctively the importance of the issues raised in the religious discussion of the Restoration era. The place of reason, the character of morality, the limits of authority, the nature of the universe, the reign of law -- these are all questions which we still debate. What is more, we discuss them in essentially the same spirit as that which first emerged in the latter part of the seventeenth century. The period of transition is the generation which followed the Restoration, and during those years the new lines of thought were marked out." [Introduction] The author's main concern is with the eclipse of Calvinism, the Cambridge Platonists, the religious significance of Locke, Toland and the rise of Deism, the relationship between the Church and the civil power and the question of religious toleration.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [231]-242.