Prophecy and reason: the dutch collegiants in the early enlightenment
Auteur :
Fix, Andrew Cooper
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691604046
Date de publication :
14 juil. 2014
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
413 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
During the second half of the seventeenth century the entire intellectual framework of educated Europe underwent a radical transformation. A secularized view of humanity and nature was replacing faith in the direct operation of God's will in the temporal world, while a growing confidence in human reason and the Scientific Revolution turned back the