Knowledge and Belief in America: Enlightenment Traditions and Modern Religious ThoughtWilliam M. Shea, Peter A. Huff Cambridge University Press, 2003 M02 13 - 376 pages The Enlightenment values of individual autonomy, democracy, and reason conflict with the religious traditions of community, authority, and traditional learning. Yet in American history the two heritages have been intertwined since the colonial era. This volume unites the work of theologians, historians, literary critics, and philosophers to explore the interaction between Enlightenment ideals and American religion. The essays focus on the Enlightenment's effect on the major religious traditions and explore religion in the thinking of such representative figures as Edwards, Emerson, Lincoln, Santayana, Stevens and Eliot. |
Contents
Knowledge and belief in American public life | 27 |
Enamored against thee by these strange minds Recovering the relations between religion and the Enlightenment in nineteenth and twentiethcentury A... | 52 |
The rise and long life of the Protestant Enlightenment in America | 88 |
American Catholicism and the Enlightenment ethos | 125 |
Organizing the past | 165 |
Enlightenment and representative figures | 193 |
Puritanism and Enlightenment Edwards and Franklin | 195 |
Emersons constitutional amending Reading Fate | 227 |
Stuck between debility and demand Religion and Enlightenment traditions among the pragmatists | 270 |
Wallace Stevens T S Eliot and the space between them | 299 |
The end of the Enlightenment? | 319 |
The Enlightenment is not over | 321 |
Modernity antimodernity and postmodernity in the American setting | 328 |
Are we beyond the Enlightenment horizon? | 335 |
List of contributors | 347 |
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