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)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 403
ISBN-13: 9780521021357
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; English; British Isles; Christianity - General; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Literary Criticism-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Religion / Christianity; Religious thought--England--17th century; Religious thought--England--17th century Reli
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.