God and Government in an 'Age of Reason' [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450802303321
• Autore: Nicholls David
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Disciplina: 261.709033; 322/.1/09033
• Soggetti: Christianity and politics; Christianity and politics - History - 18th century; Church and state; Enlightenment; History; Image of God; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; GOD AND GOVERNMENT IN AN 'AGE OF REASON'; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; 1 INTRODUCTION; The eighteenth century; Welfare state or market economy?; The new Jacobins?; An age of reason?; 2 GOD AND THE MARKET; Primates, prelates and prophets; Population and process: 'Parson Malthus'; Providence and the invisible hand: Adam Smith; 3 UNITARIAN RADICALS AND ORTHODOX ANGLICANS; Priestley and Price; God and the state: William Paley; Divine government: Butler's analogies; 4 REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS AND CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT; Robespierre; Rousseau; 5 DIVINE CONSTITUTIONALISM AND POLITICAL ORDERThe American context; The founding federalists; Political preachers; 6 DEISTS, DISSENTERS AND FREE THINKERS; Radical religion and politics; Bolingbroke; Deism and politics; Latitude men; Isaac Watts; 7 LEIBNIZ AND THE NEWTONIANS; The Newtonian hegemony; Samuel Clarke; Leibniz; 8 CONCLUSION; Religion and politics; Political ethics; Civil region; Transposing images; Images: true and false; God's republic; ; Ideology or Utopia; 9 THEOLOGICAL POSTSCRIPT; Prayer and petition; Prayer and participation; Trinity and conflict; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In this companion volume to Deity and Domination, David Nicholls broadens his examination of the relationship between religion and politics. Focusing on the images and concepts of God and the state predominant in eighteenth-century discourse, he shows how these were interrelated and reflect the language of the wider cultural contexts. Nicholls argues that the way a community pictures God will inevitably reflect (and also affect) its general understanding of authority, whether it be in state, in family or in other social institutions. Much language about God, for example, has