Eleusis and Enlightenment: The Problem of the Mysteries in Eighteenth-Century Thought

Author:   Ferdinand Saumarez Smith
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   351
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Pages:   244
Publication Date:   28 March 2024
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Author:   Ferdinand Saumarez Smith
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   351
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9789004547544


ISBN 10:   9004547541
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   28 March 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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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: Noël-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 Gébelin  3 Illuminating the Heathen World: Johann August Starck  4 The Essence of Religion: Nicolas-Marie Leclerc de Sept-Chênes 5 Christianity Revealed  1 St John the Egyptian: Christian Ernst Wünsch  2 The Elysium of Reason: Charles-François Dupuis Conclusion  Divided Testaments Bibliography  Manuscripts  Printed Primary Literature  Secondary Literature Index

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Ferdinand Saumarez Smith, PhD (2022), King's College London, is a historian of ideas and religion. As the director of Factum Foundation for Digital Technology in Preservation in the UK he has also curated exhibitions and organised cultural preservation projects worldwide.

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