The English Deists: Studies in Early Enlightenment [Hardcover]

Interprets the works of an important group of writers known as 'the English deists'. This title argues that this interpretation reads Romantic conceptions of religious identity into a period in which it was lacking. It contextualizes these writers within the early Enlightenment, which was multivocal, plural and in search of self definition.Interprets the works of an important group of writers known as 'the English deists'. This title argues that this interpretation reads Romantic conceptions of religious identity into a period in which it was lacking. It contextualizes these writers within the early Enlightenment, which was multivocal, plural and in search of self definition.Chapter 1 Who Were the English Deists?; Chapter 2 Genealogies of Deism; Chapter 3 Herbert of Cherbury; Chapter 4 Charles Blount and His Circle; Chapter 5 Three Writers; conclusion Conclusion;US? Taylor & Francis 2009