God in the Enlightenment
Edited by William J. Bulman and Robert G. Ingram
Author Information
William J. Bulman is Assistant Professor of History at Lehigh University. He previously held postdoctoral fellowships at Vanderbilt and Yale.
Robert G. Ingram is Associate Professor of History at Ohio University and Director of the George Washington Forum on American Ideas, Politics, and Institutions.
Contributors:
Claudia Brosseder is a Privatdozentin at Munich University. She previously taught at Stanford, Stetson, and Heidelberg Universities. She is the author of Im Bann der Sterne: Caspar Peucer, Philipp Melanchthon und andere Wittenberger Astrologen (Akademie-Verlag, 2004) and The Power of Huacas: Change and Resistance in the Andean World of Colonial Peru (University of Texas Press, 2014).
William J. Bulman is Assistant Professor of History at Lehigh University. He received his PhD from Princeton University in 2010 and has since held postdoctoral fellowships at Yale University and Vanderbilt University. He has published articles in Past and Present, The Journal of British Studies, History Compass, and other venues. His first book is Anglican Enlightenment: Orientalism, Religion, and Politics in England and its Empire, 1648-1715 (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
Justin Champion is Professor of the History of Early Modern Ideas at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of The Pillars of Priestcraft Shaken: The Church of England and its Enemies, 1660-1730 (Cambridge University Press, 1992) and Republican Learning: John Toland and the Crisis of Christian Culture, 1696-1722 (Manchester University Press, 2003). He is also editor of the major writings of Robert Molesworth (Liberty Fund, 2011) and (with Mark Goldie) Thomas Hobbes: On Heresy and Church History in The Works of Thomas Hobbes (Clarendon Press, forthcoming).
J. C. D. Clark was a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and of All Souls College, Oxford, and a Visiting Professor at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago; he is currently Hall Distinguished Professor of British History at the University of Kansas. He has written extensively on British history in the long eighteenth century, especially on political thought and religion.
Sarah Ellenzweig is Associate Professor of English at Rice University. She is the author of The Fringes of Belief: English Literature, Ancient Heresy, and the Politics of Freethinking, 1660-1760 (Stanford University Press, 2008). Her current book project explores the English novel and the philosophy of motion in the literary culture of the Enlightenment.
Brad Gregory is Professor of History and Dorothy G. Griffin Collegiate Chair at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe (Harvard University Press, 1999) and The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society (Harvard University Press, 2012), both of which won multiple awards. He is also co-editor of Seeing Things Their Way: Intellectual History and the Return of Religion (University of Notre Dame Press, 2009).
Robert G. Ingram is Associate Professor of History at Ohio University and Director of the George Washington Forum on American Ideas, Politics, and Institutions. He is the author of Religion, Reform, and Modernity in the Eighteenth Century: Thomas Secker and the Church of England (Boydell, 2007) and co-editor of Between Sovereignty and Anarchy: The Politics of Violence in the American Revolutionary Era (Virginia, 2015), and he is currently completing A Warfare on Earth: Religion and Enlightenment from Newton to Hume.
Paul Lim is Associate Professor of the History of Christianity in the Divinity School and Associate Professor of Religious Studies in the College of Arts & Science at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of In Pursuit of Purity, Unity, and Liberty: Richard Baxter's Puritan Ecclesiology in Context (Brill, 2004) and Mystery Unveiled: The Crisis of the Trinity in Early Modern England (Oxford University Press, 2012), which won the Roland H. Bainton Prize in 2013. He also co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Puritanism (Cambridge, 2008). He was also a recipient of the Luce Fellowship in Theology in 2011-12.
Anton Matytsin is Assistant Professor of History at Kenyon College. He received his PhD in 2013 from the University of Pennsylvania and was Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Stanford University from 2013 to 2015. His dissertation is entitled "The Specter of Skepticism and the Sources of Certainty in the Eighteenth Century, 1697-1772." He has published articles in Science et Esprit, Society and Politics, and other venues.
H.C. Erik Midelfort is Julian Bishko Professor of History, Emeritus, at the University of Virginia. He is the author of five books, including Exorcism and Enlightenment: Johann Joseph Gassner and the Demons of 18th-Century Germany (Yale University Press, 2005); A History of Madness in Sixteenth-Century Germany (Stanford University Press, 1999), which won the Roland H. Bainton Prize; and Witch Hunting in Southwestern Germany, 1562-1684: The Social and Intellectual Foundations (Stanford University Press, 1972).
Joan-Pau Rubiés is ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and was previously Reader in International History at the London School of Economics. He is the author of Travel and Ethnology in the Renaissance: South India Through European Eyes, 1250-1625 (Cambridge University Press, 2000), Travellers and Cosmographers: Studies in the History of Early Modern Travel and Ethnography (Ashgate, 2007), and a forthcoming work, Europe's New Worlds: Travel Writing and the Origins of the Enlightenment (Cambridge University Press).
Jonathan Sheehan is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. His first book, The Enlightenment Bible: Translation, Scholarship, Culture (Princeton University Press, 2005), won the George L. Mosse Prize of the American Historical Association. He has published articles in Past and Present, The Journal of the History of Ideas, The American Historical Review, and other venues. His second book (co-authored with Dror Wahrman) is Invisible Hands: Self-Organization and the Eighteenth Century (University of Chicago Press, 2015).
Jetze Touber is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Utrecht University. He is the author of Law, Medicine, and Engineering in the Cult of the Saints in Counter-Reformation Rome (Brill, 2014). He has published widely on hagiography, biblical scholarship, antiquarianism, and natural history in early modern Italy and the Dutch Republic.
Dale K. Van Kley is Emeritus Professor of History at the Ohio State University. He is the author of The Religious Origins of the French Revolution: From Calvin to the Civil Constitution, 1560-1791 (Yale University Press, 1996), The Damiens Affair and the Unraveling of the Ancien Règime, 1750-1770 (Princeton University Press, 1984), and The Jansenists and the Expulsion of the Jesuits from France, 1757-1765 (Yale University Press, 1975). He is the editor of three other books, including Religion and Politics in Enlightenment Europe (University of Notre Dame Press, 2001) and From Deficit to Deluge: The Origins of the French Revolution (Stanford University Press, 2011).
