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Title: GODLY LEARNING
PURITAN ATTITUDES TOWARDS REASON, LEARNING AND EDUCATION, 1560 -1640
By: John Morgan
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0521357004
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Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 31 March, 1988
Pages: 380
Description: The re-interpretation of the intellectual attitudes behind the English Puritans' better-known political and eccesiological viewpoints is the subject of this book. It looks at their attempt to blend knowledge with their faith to produce a distinct approach to reason, learning, and education.
Synopsis: Godly Learning attempts to establish the relationship which Puritans worked out between faith and reason in the eighty years before the Civil War. This was a period of rapid expansion of educational facilities, of a clash between humanist values of the Renaissance and the fideism of the Reformation, and of confrontations between traditionalist (primarily Aristotelian) approaches to knowledge and the more experimental path signalled by Bacon. Taking an existential approach to the question of meaning, Puritans sought their solution in the development of a covenant theology based on a life of active faith. They argued vehemently that natural reason was incapable of finding the path to salvation and only faith could regenerate reason to its proper capabilities. At the same time, Puritans emphasised the value of learning for comprehension of Scripture and preparation of sermons. Starting with a fresh approach to the question of defining Puritans, Godly Learning proceeds to delineate the infrequently studied puritan mentalite which informed the better-known public political and ecclesiological positions.Not since the work of Perry Miller has there been such a thorough attempt to comprehend the Puritan view of reason, and the implications of that view.
Illustrations: bibliography, index
Publication: UK
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
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