Religion and the Origins of the German Enlightenment: Faith and the Reform of Learning in the Thought of Christian Thomasius

by Thomas Ahnert

Analysis of the close relationship between religion and secular learning in the works of one of the central figures of the early German Enlightenment, the jurist and philosopher Christian Thomasius (1655-1728).

The Enlightenment continues to be associated with the secularization and de-Christianization of intellectual culture in the West. And yet, religious thought played a far greater role in the emergence of the Enlightenment than is often...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580462049
• ISBN13: 9781580462044
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.2" x 6.3"