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- W2481341837 abstract "The Book of Revelation lay before the educated Christians of the Enlightenment, replete with canonical authority and through its mysterious language demanding interpretation. They approached it with their innocent lust for clarity and purity, for firm moral or historical evidence. But as in the past, it confounded the interpretations extracted from it, or rather, laid upon it. There remained obscurity in the text that could not be dispelled by the light of the Newtonian sky. And for all their confidence, there are signs that something of that apocalyptic darkness still lurked in their own experience — a sense that the Reformation and Glorious Revolution, the discoveries of Locke and Newton, had not after all banished the mysteries of Rome and Geneva or ensured a lasting era of reason and prosperity. Pascal’s fear of ‘the eternal silence of those infinite spaces’ was not extinguished, for it came from a level of experience inaccessible to scientific reasoning. And the later words of Dr Johnson’s Imlac perhaps spoke for many in a generation that put such faith in clarity and order: ‘Of the uncertainties of our present state, the most dreadful and alarming is the uncertain continuance of reason’.1 The darkness emerges in Newton’s furtiveness over his biblical work and in Whiston’s concern with sin; it is there in James Thomson’s use of the Book of Job and in the incorporation of mystery with order in the great gardens of the period. And it is very consciously present in the work of three of the most original and enduring writers of the age, Jonathan Swift, Joseph Butler and William Law." @default.
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