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Article: Religion and Enlightenment in Eighteenth Century England: Theological Debate from Locke to Burke.
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- July 1, 1998
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RELIGION AND ENLIGHTENMENT IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND: THEOLOGICAL DEBATE FROM LOCKE TO BURKE B.W. Young Clarendon Press, Oxford xii + 259 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0 19 826942
Broad-brush labels attached to centuries cry out to be peeled off by deconstructionist historians Hard on the heels of those who have sought to portray the Victorian age as one characterised as much by doubt as by faith, Dr Young comes along to debunk the idea that the eighteenth century was a period of enlightenment.
`Far from being a rationalistic monopoly', he writes, `religious debate in eighteenth-century England contained significant mystical, visionary and ...