TY  - BOOK
AU  - Matytsin,Anton M.
TI  - Let there be enlightenment: the religious and mystical sources of rationality 
SN  - 9781421426020
AV  - B802 .L445 2018eb
U1  - 190.9/033 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Enlightenment
KW  - Philosophy and religion
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Influence
KW  - Rationalism
KW  - Siècle des Lumières
KW  - Christianisme
KW  - Rationalisme
KW  - rationalism (philosophy)
KW  - aat
KW  - Enlightenment (18th-century western movement)
KW  - 02.01 history of science and culture
KW  - bcl
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - History & Surveys
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Modern
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One. Lux; Via Lucis in tenebras: Comenius as Prophet of the Age of Light; Whose Light Is It Anyway? The Struggle for Light in the French Enlightenment; The "Lights" before the Enlightenment: The Tribunal of Reason and Public Opinion; Writing the History of Illumination in the Siècle des Lumières: Enlightenment Narratives of Light; Part Two. Veritas; Another Dialogue in the Tractatus: Spinoza on "Christ's Disciples" and the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers); A Backward Glance: Light and Darkness in the Medieval Theology of Power; Lumen unitivum: The Light of Reason and the Aristotelian Sect in Early Modern ScholasticismThe Aristotelian Enlightenment; Part Three. Tenebrae; Secular Sacerdotalism in the Anglican Enlightenment, 1660-1740; Refracting the Century of Lights: Alternate Genealogies of Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Culture; Enlightenment in the Shadows: Mysticism, Materialism, and the Dream State in Eighteenth-Century France; Light, Truth, and the Counter-Enlightenment's Enlightenment; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
N2  - According to most scholars, the Enlightenment was a rational awakening, a radical break from a past dominated by religion and superstition. But in Let There Be Enlightenment, Anton M. Matytsin, Dan Edelstein, and the contributors they have assembled deftly undermine this simplistic narrative. Emphasizing the ways in which religious beliefs and motivations shaped philosophical perspectives, essays in this book highlight figures and topics often overlooked in standard genealogies of the Enlightenment. The volume underscores the prominent role that religious discourses continued to play in major aspects of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century thought
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