The Naturalization of Scriptural Reason in Seventeenth-Century Epistemology

Several scholars have claimed that the decline of revealed or Scriptural mysteries in the early Enlightenment was a consequence of the trajectories of Reformed theology in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Reformed theology's fideistic stance, it is claimed, undermined earlier frameworks...

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Auteur principal: Thompson, Jon W. (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Wiley-Blackwell [2021]
Dans: Zygon
Année: 2021, Volume: 56, Numéro: 1, Pages: 188-208
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Réforme protestante / Fidéisme / Raison / Théorie de la connaissance / Histoire 1600-1700
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophie de la religion
VB Herméneutique; philosophie
Sujets non-standardisés:B Epistemology
B Enlightenment
B Revelation
B John Locke
B Reformed Theology
B Cambridge Platonism
B Socinianism
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Résumé:Several scholars have claimed that the decline of revealed or Scriptural mysteries in the early Enlightenment was a consequence of the trajectories of Reformed theology in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Reformed theology's fideistic stance, it is claimed, undermined earlier frameworks for relating reason to revealed mysteries; consequently, rationalism emerged as an alternative to such fideism in figures like the Cambridge Platonists. This article argues that Reformed theologians of the seventeenth century were not fideists but re-affirmed Medieval claims about the eschatological concord of reason and revealed mysteries. Furthermore, the article suggests that early Enlightenment attitudes to religious mysteries owe more to innovations in Socinianism and Cambridge Platonism than to mainstream Reformed theology.
ISSN:1467-9744
Contient:Enthalten in: Zygon
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/zygo.12677