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The sovereignty of reason : the defense of rationality in the early English Enlightenment
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ISBN: 0691033951 1306984130 Year: 1996 Publisher: Princeton (N.J.): Princeton university press

'Religion' and the religions in the English Enlightenment
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ISBN: 052138530X 0521892937 0511627971 9780521385305 9780511627972 9780521892933 Year: 1990 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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This study examines the changes which took place in the understanding of 'religion' and 'the religions' during the Enlightenment in England, the period when the decisive break with Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance notions of religion occurred. Dr Harrison's view is that the principles of the English Enlightenment not only made a special contribution to our modern understanding of what religion is, but they pioneered, in addition, the 'scientific', or non-religious approach, to religious phenomena. During this period a crisis of authority in the Church necessitated a rational enquiry into the various forms of Christianity, and in addition, into the claims of all religions. This led to a concept of 'religion' (based on 'natural' theology) which could link together the apparently disparate religious beliefs and practices found in the empirical religions.


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The English catholic enlightenment : John Lingard and the cisalpine movement, 1780-1850
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ISBN: 0915762102 9780915762101 Year: 1980 Publisher: Shepherdstown Patmos press

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