Chapters
Christian Antecedents
Zinzendorf’s Christian Antecedents: Spener’s Pietist Protestantism, Lutheran Protestantism. Luther’s conversion, Augustine’s, and Paul’s. Paul and his Corinthians, Greek ecstasies. From Paul forward to Augustine, Calvin, and Jonathan Edwards.
The Crucible of the Counter-Enlightenment V
Israel Ba‘al Shem Tov, Hasidism and the Judaic Counter-Enlightenment. Jewish Antecedents: Sabbatian Judaism. The Medieval Torah: Paquda and piety, Maimonides’s Enlightenment, De Leon’s Zohar and Kabbalism. Hasidim between Mithnagdim and Maskilim.
Introduction
Revival in Jefferson’s Virginia. Enlightenment and Isaiah Berlin’s Counter-Enlightenment. Religion as Ecstatic Experience and Religion as Morality.
The Crucible of the Counter-Enlightenment, IV
The Jansenist Convulsionaries. A Catholic Counter-Enlightenment? Augustinian and Jansenist Catholics, Zinzendorf again and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Charismatic and Sentimental Catholics .