Description: Life of William Robertson : Minister, Historian, and Principal, Hardcover by Smitten, Jeffrey R., ISBN 0748646108, ISBN-13 9780748646104, Brand New, Free shipping in the US A prominent figure in the Scottish Enlightenment, William Robertson differed from his better-known contemporaries, such as Voltaire, Hume and Gibbon, because he used the critical tools of the Enlightenment not to attack religion but to strengthen it. As a historian, he helped shape 18th-century historiography. As a minister of the Church of Scotland, he sought to make the church fit for a polite age. And, as principal of the University of Edinburgh, he presided over a flourishing of intellectual inquiry in the midst of the Enlightenment. But despite his European fame, he was a controversial figure. Drawing extensively on his unpublished correspondence, Jeffrey Smitten captures both the man and his work in his own words. By foregrounding Robertson's religious outlook, he offers a more contextualized and nuanced interpretation of his motives, intentions, as well as his beliefs than we have had before.
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Book Title: Life of William Robertson : Minister, Historian, and Principal
Number of Pages: 280 Pages
Publication Name: Life of William Robertson : Minister, Historian, and Principal
Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh Tea & Coffee Company University Press
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2016
Subject: Philosophers, Europe / Great Britain / Scotland, Individual Philosophers, Religious, Commerce, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), World, Europe / General
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 20.8 Oz
Author: Jeffrey R. Smitten
Item Length: 6.2 in
Subject Area: Philosophy, Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, History
Item Width: 9.3 in
Format: Hardcover
