The Authority of the Bible and the Rise of the Modern World

by Henning Graf Reventlow, John Bowden (Translator)

Preface
Preface to the English Edition
Foreword
Abbreviations
Introduction
Arriving at the starting point: The cultural situation in the centuries before the Reformation
Erasmus
The 'Left wing of the Reformation'
Martin Bucer
The age of the Puritans
Lord Herbert of Cherbury: His epistemology & philosophy of religion
Thomas Hobbes: The philosophical pressuppositions of his Biblical criticism
The latitudinarians
The beginning of the deistic debatds
Forms of apologetic
The heyday of Deism
The late phase
Conclusion
Notes
Index

Genres: Theology, History, Christian

688 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1980

Reviews

[Andy · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book reads like stereo instructions. Loaded with speculative assertions that seem to be based on the work of historians with axes to grind. However, this volume does a magnificent job tracing the whole German liberal Higher Criticism movement back to the work of the English Deists. I'm sure a lot of people have suspected the connection, but Reventlow provides a mountain of evidence proving the connection.
The book was worth the read for that section alone.