03417nam 2200553Ia 450 991081547970332120200520144314.00-203-16921-21-134-98228-31-280-21714-60-203-28564-61-134-98227-5(CKB)1000000000250387(EBL)167757(OCoLC)475875386(MiAaPQ)EBC167757(EXLCZ)99100000000025038719950323d1995 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierGod and government in an 'age of reason' /David Nicholls1st ed.London ;New York Routledge19951 online resource (289 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-138-86814-0 0-415-01173-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-270) and index.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; Rousseau5 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; IndexIn 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, hasChristianity and politicsHistory18th centuryChurch and stateHistory18th centuryImage of GodHistory of doctrines18th centuryChristianity and politicsHistoryChurch and stateHistoryImage of GodHistory of doctrines322/.1/09033Nicholls David1936-1756574MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815479703321God and government in an 'age of reason4193917UNINA