Format:
1 Online-Ressource (346 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
1400864445
,
9781400864447
Series Statement:
Princeton Legacy Library
Content:
The Sovereignty of Reason is a survey of the rule of faith controversy in seventeenth-century England. It examines the arguments by which reason eventually became the sovereign standard of truth in religion and politics, and how it triumphed over its rivals: Scripture, inspiration, and apostolic tradition. Frederick Beiser argues that the main threat to the authority of reason in seventeenth-century England came not only from dissident groups but chiefly from the Protestant theology of the Church of England. The triumph of reason was the result of a new theology rather than the devel
Content:
Cover; 1. The Protestant Challenge
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Beiser, Frederick C Sovereignty of Reason : The Defense of Rationality in the Early English Enlightenment Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2014
Language:
English
URL:
Volltext
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Author information:
Beiser, Frederick C. 1949-
