Abstract:Bennett traces the debates around these ideas through chapters titled "The Early Church," "Latin Christianity," "Reformation Protestantism," and "Reason and Religion in Modern History"-that is, understandings of seventeenth-and eighteenth-century rational Protestantism. The mood evoked throughout is of confidence and creativity: "Positive reconstruction . . . best describes what Victorian religious historians believed they were accomplishing" (245). It was history, not dogma or the Bible, that would persuade f… Show more
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