Godly Learning: Puritan Attitudes Towards Reason, Learning, and Education, 1560-1640

by John Morgan

Book Overview

Godly Learning attempts to establish the relationship which Puritans worked out between faith and reason in the eighty years before the Civil War. This was a period of rapid expansion of educational facilities, of a clash between humanist values of the Renaissance and the fideism of the Reformation, and of confrontations between traditionalist (primarily Aristotelian) approaches to knowledge and the more experimental path signalled by Bacon. Taking...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521357004
• ISBN13: 9780521357005
• Release Date: April 1988
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.0"