Enlightenment and Modernity

Enlightenment and Modernity
Author: Wayne Hudson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2015-09-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317316053

The writers known as the English deists were not simply religious controversialists, but agents of reform who contributed to the emergence of modernity. This title claims that these writers advocated a failed ideology which itself declined after 1730. It argues for an evolution of their ideas into a more modern form.