Eleusis and Enlightenment

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Eleusis and Enlightenment

The Problem of the Mysteries in Eighteenth-Century Thought

Saumarez Smith, Ferdinand

Brill

03/2024

252

Dura

Inglês

9789004547544

15 a 20 dias

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Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Figures



Introduction

?The Age of the Mysteries

?1?Freemasonry and Enlightenment

?2?Summary of Chapters



1 The Word Mystery

?1?Christianity not Mysterious: John Toland

?2?The Trinitarian Controversy

?3?Toland not Deist

?4?'Unfolding Nature's Mysteries, and discoursing on Religion'



2 The Religion of the Patriarchs

?1?William Stukeley: The Antiquarian Freemason

?2?On the Mysterys

?3?The Egyptian Society

?4?True Noachida: James Anderson

?5?Chance Rays of the Hebrews: Andrew Michael Ramsay



3 Law, Agriculture, and the Afterlife

?1?William Warburton and the Ancient Legislators

?2?Agriculture after the Deluge: Noel-Antoine Pluche

?3?The Origin and the End of Society: Nicolas-Antoine Boulanger



4 The Common Temple of the World

?1?The Venemous Cure: Voltaire and Warburton

?2?The Festival of Universal Liberty: Antoine Court de Gebelin

?3?Illuminating the Heathen World: Johann August Starck

?4?The Essence of Religion: Nicolas-Marie Leclerc de Sept-Chenes



5 Christianity Revealed

?1?St John the Egyptian: Christian Ernst Wuensch

?2?The Elysium of Reason: Charles-Francois Dupuis



Conclusion

?Divided Testaments

Bibliography

?Manuscripts

?Printed Primary Literature

?Secondary Literature

Index
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