RT Article
T1 The Naturalization of Scriptural Reason in Seventeenth-Century Epistemology
JF Zygon
VO 56
IS 1
SP 188
OP 208
A1 Thompson, Jon W.
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/175114674X
AB Several scholars have claimed that the decline of revealed or Scriptural mysteries in the early Enlightenment was a consequence of the trajectories of Reformed theology in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Reformed theology's fideistic stance, it is claimed, undermined earlier frameworks for relating reason to revealed mysteries; consequently, rationalism emerged as an alternative to such fideism in figures like the Cambridge Platonists. This article argues that Reformed theologians of the seventeenth century were not fideists but re-affirmed Medieval claims about the eschatological concord of reason and revealed mysteries. Furthermore, the article suggests that early Enlightenment attitudes to religious mysteries owe more to innovations in Socinianism and Cambridge Platonism than to mainstream Reformed theology.
K1 John Locke
K1 Cambridge Platonism
K1 Socinianism
K1 Enlightenment
K1 Epistemology
K1 Reformed Theology
K1 Revelation
DO 10.1111/zygo.12677