Enlightenment Reformation: Hutchinsonianism and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Britain / Edition 1

by Derya Gürses Tarbuck

Overview

Taking a fresh and imaginative approach to the topic, Enlightenment Reformation investigates how and why Hutchinsonianism came into being, evolved and eventually ended. In surveying the history of this intellectual movement, it explores the controversies in and around religion that sat at the very centre of the Enlightenment period in Britain.

During the eighteenth century, many opponents of Isaac Newton's cosmology and natural religion gravitated to the writings of John Hutchinson (1674–1737). United by a strong belief in the Christian Trinity and a particular approach to the reading of Hebrew Biblical texts, the essential tenets of Hutchinsonianism remained for over a century the main source of opposition to Enlightenment scientific theories. Integrating the various aspects of Hutchinsonianism that together help to define the movement, this book first critiques the existing historiography on the subject and second provides an overview of the movement’s thought, growth and downfall.

This volume offers a fascinating perspective on the role of religion, science and ecclesiastical history in eighteenth-century thought and will be valuable reading for scholars working in intellectual and cultural history, in particular the history of philosophy, legal history, education and the relationship between church and state in the early modern period.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780754667193
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/24/2016
Pages:	170
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Derya Gurses Tarbuck is Assistant Professor in History at Bahcesehir University, Turkey. She obtained her PhD in intellectual history at Bilkent University in Turkey and has since held fellowship positions at UCLA, Cambridge and the University of Edinburgh. She has published extensively on eighteenth-century intellectual history.

Table of Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

INTRODUCTION

1: A VARIETY OF ‘HUTCHINSONIANISMS’

2: THE TIMES, THE NEED AND THE MEN

3: A COMPACT DEFENCE AGAINST AN OVERALL ASSAULT: THE TRINITARIAN SYSTEM OF JOHN HUTCHINSON

4: THE CONTROVERSY OVER ELAHIM: 1735–1773

5: ACADEMIC HUTCHINSONIANS AND THEIR QUEST FOR RELEVANCE: 1734–1770

6: FROM MODERATION TO ASSIMILATION: 1777–1806

CONCLUSION

APPENDIX

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Index