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- catalog abstract "Be Sober and Reasonable deals with the theological and medical critique of "enthusiasm" in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and with the relationship between enthusiasm and the new natural philosophy in that period. "Enthusiasm" at that time was a label ascribed to various individuals and groups who claimed to have direct divine inspiration - prophets, millenarists, alchemists, but also experimental philosophers, and even philosophers like Descartes. The book attempts to combine the perspectives of intellectual history, Church history, history of medicine, and history of science, in analyzing the various reactions to enthusiasm. The central thesis of the book is that the reaction to enthusiasm, especially in the Protestant world, may provide one important key to the origins of the Enlightenment, and to the processes of secularization of European consciousness.".
- catalog contributor b8545151.
- catalog created "1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
- catalog description "1. The Theological Critique of Enthusiasm -- 2. Melancholy and Enthusiasm: The Sources of the Medical Critique of Enthusiasm -- 3. "Strange, but Natural Effects": The Medical Critique of Enthusiasm in the Works of Meric Casaubon and Henry More -- 4. Descartes and the Cartesian Philosophy: A Manifestation of Enthusiasm? -- 5. The New Experimental Philosophy: A Manifestation of "Enthusiasm" or an Antidote to it? -- 6. Scripture and Reason: The New Theological Discourse on the Eve of the Enlightenment -- 7. The New Medical Discourse and the Theological Critique of Enthusiasm -- 8. Shaftesbury and the Limits of Toleration Concerning Enthusiasm -- 9. Mechanism and Enthusiasm: From Explicit Antagonism to Implicit Alliance -- Conclusion: The Critique of Enthusiasm and the Problem of Secularization.".
- catalog description "Be Sober and Reasonable deals with the theological and medical critique of "enthusiasm" in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and with the relationship between enthusiasm and the new natural philosophy in that period. "Enthusiasm" at that time was a label ascribed to various individuals and groups who claimed to have direct divine inspiration - prophets, millenarists, alchemists, but also experimental philosophers, and even philosophers like Descartes. The book attempts to combine the perspectives of intellectual history, Church history, history of medicine, and history of science, in analyzing the various reactions to enthusiasm. The central thesis of the book is that the reaction to enthusiasm, especially in the Protestant world, may provide one important key to the origins of the Enlightenment, and to the processes of secularization of European consciousness.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 312 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "9004101187 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 63".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : E.J. Brill,".
- catalog subject "273/.7 20".
- catalog subject "BR112 .H45 1995".
- catalog subject "Church history 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Church history 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Enthusiasm Religious aspects Christianity.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. The Theological Critique of Enthusiasm -- 2. Melancholy and Enthusiasm: The Sources of the Medical Critique of Enthusiasm -- 3. "Strange, but Natural Effects": The Medical Critique of Enthusiasm in the Works of Meric Casaubon and Henry More -- 4. Descartes and the Cartesian Philosophy: A Manifestation of Enthusiasm? -- 5. The New Experimental Philosophy: A Manifestation of "Enthusiasm" or an Antidote to it? -- 6. Scripture and Reason: The New Theological Discourse on the Eve of the Enlightenment -- 7. The New Medical Discourse and the Theological Critique of Enthusiasm -- 8. Shaftesbury and the Limits of Toleration Concerning Enthusiasm -- 9. Mechanism and Enthusiasm: From Explicit Antagonism to Implicit Alliance -- Conclusion: The Critique of Enthusiasm and the Problem of Secularization.".
- catalog title "Be sober and reasonable : the critique of enthusiasm in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries / by Michael Heyd.".
- catalog type "text".