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"Be Sober and Reasonable": The Critique of Enthusiasm in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries
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1998
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Literary HistoryHumanitiesEarly American LiteratureEarly Eighteenth CenturiesMore Secular CultureHumanismChristian PracticeSpiritualityEnglish CultureReligious SystemsReligious PluralismLanguage StudiesScientific CritiqueDivine Inspiration —Intellectual HistoryHistorical AnalysisModernity
This book analyses the theological, medical and scientific critique of “enthusiasm” — claims to direct divine inspiration — in early modern Europe, and the contribution of that critique to a more secular culture on the eve of the Enlightenment.