The Enlightenment and original sin /

The Enlightenment and original sin /

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Author / Creator:	Kadane, Matthew, author.
Imprint:	Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2024. ©2024
Description:	xiii, 236 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	The life of ideas Life of ideas.
Subject:	Barker, Pentecost, -- 1690-1762. Enlightenment. Sin, Original -- History of doctrines. Philosophical anthropology -- History -- 18th century. Theological anthropology -- History -- 18th century. Enlightenment Philosophical anthropology Sin, Original -- History of doctrines Theological anthropology History
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13529089

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ISBN:	9780226832876 0226832872 9780226832890 0226832899 9780226832883
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"What was the Enlightenment? This question has been endlessly debated. In this book, historian Matthew Kadane advances the bold claim that Enlightenment is best defined through what it set out to accomplish, which was nothing short of rethinking the meaning of human nature. Kadane argues that this project centered around the doctrine of original sin and, ultimately, its rejection, signaling the radical notion that an inherently flawed nature can be overcome by human means. Kadane explores these ambitious, wide-ranging themes through the story of the largely unknown Pentecost Barker, an eighteenth-century "purser" and wine merchant. Examining Barker's diary and correspondence with a Unitarian minister, Kadane tracks the transformation of Barker's consciousness from a Puritan to an Enlightenment outlook. In one man's conversion, Kadane tracks large-scale shifts in self-understanding whose philosophical reverberations would (and have continued to) shape debates on human nature for centuries to come"--

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