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Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-11-30 - Publisher: Springer
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We have long been taught that the Enlightenment was an attempt to free the world from the clutches of Christian civilization and make it safe for philosophy. Th
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Pages: 273
Pages: 273
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Pages: 294
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How did the Bible survive the Enlightenment? In this book, Jonathan Sheehan shows how Protestant translators and scholars in the eighteenth century transformed