Faith in the Age of Reason

by Jonathan C. R. Hill

Publisher:

Lion Hudson

, 2004

Overview

Jonathan Hill begins by describing how the Middle Ages came to an end with the Renaissance and the Reformation, setting the scene for the Enlightenment. Hill then concentrates on the central themes and characteristics of this turbulent period: the Churches, the New Science, the New Philosophy, the Question of Authority, Politics and Society, God, Humanity and the World, and the Reaction and the Legacy. Key figures that Hill features are: Samuel Johnson, Galileo, Newton, Descartes, Hume, Voltaire, Pascal, Locke, Diderot, Rousseau and Kant. The Age of Reason was an age when world views clashed and new ways of understanding emerged. Faith in the Age of Reason examines what these powerful new ideas were, and how they impacted on Christianity.

Product Details

• Title: Faith in the Age of Reason
• Author: Jonathan C. R. Hill
• Series: Lion Histories Series
• Publisher: Lion Hudson
• Print Publication Date: 2004
• Logos Release Date: 2011
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Europe › Intellectual life--18th century; Enlightenment
• ISBNs: 9780745951300, 0745951309
• Resource ID: LLS:FTHAGERSN
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-06-13T16:51:46Z

About Jonathan C. R. Hill

Jonathan Hill is Lecturer in Philosophy of Religion at the University of Exeter. He holds an MPhil in Theology from Oxford, and a PhD in Philosophy from the National University of Singapore. He is the author of the highly acclaimed The History of Christian Thought (Lion, 2003), What Has Christianity Ever Done for Us? (Lion, 2005), The Big Questions (Lion, 2007), and The New Lion Handbook: The History of Christianity (Lion, 2007).