Jesus in an Age of Enlightenment: Radical Gospels from Thomas Hobbes to Thomas Jefferson

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Jonathan C. P. Birch

Jesus in an Age of Enlightenment

Radical Gospels from Thomas Hobbes to Thomas Jefferson

Jonathan C. P. Birch

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Palgrave Macmillan
29 July 2019

Western philosophy: Enlightenment; The historical Jesus; Christian theology

Series: Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World

This book explores the religious concerns of Enlightenment thinkers from Thomas Hobbes to Thomas Jefferson. Using an innovative method, the study illuminates the intellectual history of the age through interpretations of Jesus between c.1650 and c.1826. The book demonstrates the persistence of theology in modern philosophy and the projects of social reform and amelioration associated with the Enlightenment. At the core of many of these projects was a robust moral-theological realism, sometimes manifest in a natural law ethic, but always associated with Jesus and a commitment to the sovereign goodness of God. This ethical orientation in Enlightenment discourse is found in a range of different metaphysical and political identities (dualist and monist; progressive and radical) which intersect with earlier ‘heretical’ tendencies in Christian thought (Arianism, Pelagianism, and Marcionism). This intellectual matrix helped to produce the discourses of irenic toleration which are a legacyof the Enlightenment at its best.

By: Jonathan C. P. Birch
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2019 ed.
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
Weight: 796g
ISBN: 9781137512758
ISBN 10: 113751275X
Series: Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World
Pages: 493
Publication Date: 29 July 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jonathan C P Birch teaches in the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK. He is an intellectual historian who specialises in biblical interpretation and Western philosophy.

Reviews for Jesus in an Age of Enlightenment: Radical Gospels from Thomas Hobbes to Thomas Jefferson

Birch's invaluable, rigorous, and engaging book does much to further-it will be of vital interest to historians, theologians, and religious studies scholars of all levels, seeking to engage honestly with the complex, pluralistic nature of our collective intellectual history. (Jonathan Greenaway, Literature and Theology, February 7, 2021)