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Be Sober and Reasonable: The Critique of Enthusiasm in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries

Be Sober and Reasonable: The Critique of Enthusiasm in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries

Heyd, Michael

Hardcover

Religion General General European HistoryInterior Design

ISBN10: 9004101187
ISBN13: 9789004101180
Publisher: Brill
Published: Sep 19 2000
Pages: 314
Weight: 1.62
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.64 Depth: 9.76
Language: English
Be Sober and Reasonable deals with the theological and medical critique of enthusiasm in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and with the relationship between enthusiasm and the new natural philosophy in that period. Enthusiasm at that time was a label ascribed to various individuals and groups who claimed to have direct divine inspiration -- prophets, millenarists, alchemists, but also experimental philosophers, and even philosophers like Descartes.
The book attempts to combine the perspectives of Intellectual history, Church history, history of medicine, and history of science, in analysing the various reactions to enthusiasm.
The central thesis of the book is that the reaction to enthusiasm, especially in the Protestant world, may provide one important key to the origins of the Enlightenment, and to the processes of secularization of European consciousness.

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