Beschreibung:
This groundbreaking account of the concept of a philosophical religion traces its history from antiquity to the Enlightenment.
Introduction: what is a philosophical religion?; 1. Reason, divine nomoi, and self-rule in Plato; 2. Moses, Christ and the universal rule of Reason in antiquity; 3. Communities of Reason in the Islamic world; 4. Christianity as a philosophical religion in Spinoza; Epilogue: did the history of philosophical religions come to an end?