• Contents


• Acknowledgements


• Abbreviations


• Editors and Contributors


• Introduction: Enlightenment for the Culture Wars


• William J. Bulman


• 1: Godless Politics: Hobbes and Public Religion


• Justin Champion


• 2: Reason and Utility in French Religious Apologetics


• Anton Matytsin


• 3: Bernabé Cobo's Re-creation of an Authentic America in Colonial Peru


• Claudia Brosseder


• 4: From Christian Apologetics to Deism: Libertine Readings of Hinduism, 1600-1730


• Joan-Pau Rubiés


• 5: The Platonic Captivity of Primitive Christianity and the Enlightening of Augustine


• Paul C.H. Lim


• 6: God's Word in the Dutch Republic


• Jetze Touber


• 7: Suffering Job: Christianity Beyond Metaphysics


• Jonathan Sheehan


• 8: The Reformation Origins of the Enlightenment's God


• Brad S. Gregory


• 9: 'God' and 'the Enlightenment': The Divine Attributes and the Question of Categories in British Discourse


• J. C. D. Clark


• 10: Medicine, Theology, and the Problem of Germany's Pietist Ecstatics


• H. C. Erik Midelfort


• 11: Richard Bentley's Paradise Lost and the Ghost of Spinoza


• Sarah Ellenzweig


• Conclusion: The Varieties of Enlightened Experience


• Dale K. Van Kley

William J. Bulman is Assistant Professor of History at Lehigh University. Robert G. Ingram is Associate Professor of History and Director of the George Washington Forum on American Ideas, Politics, and Institutions at Ohio University.

Contrary to popular belief, God not only survived the Enlightenment, but thrived within it. By exposing the Enlightenment's close ties to the traditions of the Renaissance, the passions of the Reformation, and the stirrings of globalization, God in the Enlightenment offers a spectral view of the age of lights.