Description:
Editors and contributors urge intellectual historians to explore the religious dimensions of ideas and commend the methods of intellectual history to historians of religion.
Brief description:
John Coffey is professor of early modern history at the University of Leicester.
Review Quotes:
". . . each of the articles shows the importance of theological concepts to a particular issue in the history of ideas, revealing the advantages of the recommended approach. Taken together, the essays in this volume reveal, eloquently and persuasively, the unacceptably high cost of ignoring both theology and religious experience; they will help to ensure that future intellectual historians will be unable to sidestep religion, as too many of their predecessors have done." --The Journal of Ecclesiastical History