Culture and religion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23194457 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David A Bell (0000-0002-0300-7756, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Pages | 78-104 |
| Publication date | 2001-05-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Old Regime France (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780198731306.003.0004 |
| OpenAlex | W4388344549 |
| ISBN | 9780198731306 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
To many of the eighteenth-century intellectuals known as the philosophes, the story of their age was a story of epic conflict. On the one side stood the defenders of faith and tradition. These, in the story, were the forces of darkness: fanatical, superstitious, irrational, and arbitrary. On the other side stood the philosophes themselves, and like-minded allies. They were the forces of light, or, as they liked to say, of Enlightenment: advocates of science, reason, utility, and freedom. The defenders of faith had the full apparatus of the French state at their disposal, and legions of priests promising eternal damnation to the heterodox. The forces of Enlightenment, so the story continued, had on their side only the rightness of their cause, the support of a few high-placed friends, and that staunch servant of freedom of thought, the printing press. Nonetheless, they would inevitably prevail.
Art · Damnation · Enlightenment · EPIC · Faith · Literature · Political science · Servant · Theology · Engineering · Historical and Literary Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Law · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religious studies
| Citations per year | 0.23 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2017 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |