TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Ferdinand Saumarez
TI  - Eleusis and Enlightenment: The Problem of the Mysteries in Eighteenth-Century Thought 
T2  - Brill's Studies in Intellectual History
SN  - 9789004692305
AV  - BS709.4 
U1  - 220.4/2 23
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Biblical Interpretations
KW  - Biblical Studies
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary Material; Ferdinand Saumarez Smith -- Chapter 1 The Word Mystery; Ferdinand Saumarez Smith -- Chapter 2 The Religion of the Patriarchs; Ferdinand Saumarez Smith -- Chapter 3 Law, Agriculture, and the Afterlife; Ferdinand Saumarez Smith -- Chapter 4 The Common Temple of the World; Ferdinand Saumarez Smith -- Chapter 5 Christianity Revealed; Ferdinand Saumarez Smith -- Conclusion; Ferdinand Saumarez Smith
N2  - The age of Enlightenment – the so-called age of reason – was also, paradoxically, the age of the Eleusinian mysteries. By attempting to reveal Demeter's secret cult, British, French, and German thinkers and freemasons of the eighteenth century revealed more than they bargained for: the pagan origins of Christian doctrines such as the Trinity and the afterlife, and through the mythical gift of law and agriculture to Eleusis an alternative narrative of the origins of civilisation to that found in the Bible
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004692305
ER  -