The Authority of the Old Testament in Enlightenment Britain

旧约在启蒙时期英国的权威

• 批准号: 2597519
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Leicester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2597519
• 关键词: Authority; Old; Testament; Enlightenment; Britain

My project examines the influence of the Old Testament on the politics, theology and culture of Britain in the long eighteenth century. It intends to contribute to a scholarly reassessment of the role and place of religion in the enlightenment period by studying the reception history of the Bible - a relatively under-explored aspect of eighteenth-century life. Taking the Old Testament figures of Moses and David as my case studies, I study the ways that these characters were read, taught and invoked in sermons, commentaries, tracts, political writings and artistic works, in order to understand the extent and nature of the Old Testament's authority in various spheres of eighteenth-century life. I am going to investigate whether and how the enlightenment intellectual context changed the way the Old Testament was received across society, and to what extent it remained a significant cultural resource in the eighteenth century. My project therefore seeks to produce not only a study into the intersection between religion, culture and politics in enlightenment society, but also a contribution to the history of the reception of the Bible in early modern Britain.

我的项目考察了《旧约》对漫长的十八世纪英国政治、神学和文化的影响。它打算通过研究圣经的接受史--18世纪生活中相对未被探索的一个方面--来促进对宗教在启蒙时期的作用和地位的学术重新评估。以摩西和大卫的《旧约》人物为例，我研究了这些人物在布道、评论、传单、政治著作和艺术作品中被阅读、教导和引用的方式，以了解《旧约》在18世纪生活的各个领域的权威的程度和性质。我将调查启蒙思想背景是否以及如何改变了整个社会接受旧约的方式，以及在多大程度上它在18世纪仍然是一种重要的文化资源。因此，我的项目不仅致力于研究启蒙社会中宗教、文化和政治之间的交集，而且也为早期现代英国接受圣经的历史做出贡献。