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The Enlightenment Bible offers a new history of the Bible in the century of its greatest crisis and, in turn, a new vision of this century and its effects on religion. Although the Enlightenment has long symbolized the corrosive effects of modernity on religion, Sheehan shows how the Bible survived, and even thrived in this cradle of ostensible secularization. Indeed, in eighteenth-century Protestant Europe, biblical scholarship and translation became more vigorous and culturally significant than at any time since the Reformation. From across the theological spectrum, European scholars--especially German and English--exerted tremendous energies to rejuvenate the Bible, reinterpret its meaning, and reinvest it with new authority.
Poets, pedagogues, philosophers, literary critics, philologists, and historians together built a post-theological Bible, a monument for a new religious era. These literati forged the Bible into a cultural text, transforming the theological core of the Judeo-Christian tradition. In the end, the Enlightenment gave the Bible the power to endure the corrosive effects of modernity, not as a theological text but as the foundation of Western culture.
The Enlightenment Bible offers a new history of the Bible in the century of its greatest crisis and, in turn, a new vision of this century and its effects on religion. Although the Enlightenment has long symbolized the corrosive effects of modernity on religion, Sheehan shows how the Bible survived, and even thrived in this cradle of ostensible secularization. Indeed, in eighteenth-century Protestant Europe, biblical scholarship and translation became more vigorous and culturally significant than at any time since the Reformation. From across the theological spectrum, European scholars--especially German and English--exerted tremendous energies to rejuvenate the Bible, reinterpret its meaning, and reinvest it with new authority.
Poets, pedagogues, philosophers, literary critics, philologists, and historians together built a post-theological Bible, a monument for a new religious era. These literati forged the Bible into a cultural text, transforming the theological core of the Judeo-Christian tradition. In the end, the Enlightenment gave the Bible the power to endure the corrosive effects of modernity, not as a theological text but as the foundation of Western culture.
Preface: Forging the Cultural Bible ix
Abbreviations xvii
Chapter One: The Vernacular Bible: Reformation and Baroque 1
Chapter Three: Religion, the New Testament, and the German Reinvention of the Bible 54
Part II: The Forms of the Enlightenment Bible Chapter Four: Philology: The Bible from Text to Document 93
Chapter Five: Pedagogy: The Politics and Morals of the Enlightenment Bible 118
Chapter Six: Poetry: National Literature, History, and the Hebrew Bible 148
Chapter Seven: History: The Archival and Alien Old Testament 182
Part III: The Cultural Bible Chapter Eight: Culture, Religion, and the Bible in Germany, 1790-1830 223
Chapter Nine: "Regeneration from Germany": Culture and the Bible in England, 1780-1870 241
Afterword 259
Index 261
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2007 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Importe, Religion & Theologie |
| Religion: | Christentum |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780691130699 |
| ISBN-10: | 0691130698 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Sheehan, Jonathan |
| Hersteller: | Princeton University Press |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 234 x 156 x 18 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Jonathan Sheehan |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 22.07.2007 |
| Gewicht: | 0,504 kg |
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