[PDF.86qh] A Paradise of Reason: William Bentley and Enlightenment Christianity in the Early Republic (Religion in America)

A Paradise of Reason: William Bentley and Enlightenment Christianity in the Early Republic (Religion in America)

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 | #3095905 in Books |  2007-11-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  6.10 x1.10 x9.30l,1.25 | File type: PDF | 280 pages

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| A Brilliant Portrait of an Early American|By David L. Williams|Ruffin's book on Bentley is a landmark in early American intellectual history. In bringing to life the story of a ferociously cerebral eighteenth-century pastor from Salem, he has sketched a morality tale. Bentley's "Christian Naturalism" blended a belief in the literal truth of the Biblical past with a Deistic co| ||"A Paradise of Reason is far more than simply a book about a quirky eighteenth-century clergyman and his New England town. This impressive weave of social and intellectual history has deep insights about the complex relationships of Christianity, th

William Bentley, pastor in Salem, Massachusetts from 1783 to his death in 1819, was unlike anyone else in America's founding generation, for he had come to unique conclusions about how best to maintain a traditional understanding of Christianity in a world ever changing by the forces of the Enlightenment.

Like some of his contemporaries, Bentley preached a liberal Christianity, with its benevolent God and salvation through moral living, but he-and in New England...

You easily download any file type for your device.A Paradise of Reason: William Bentley and Enlightenment Christianity in the Early Republic (Religion in America)   |  J. Rixey Ruffin.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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