{"product_id":"2026100009694-secondhand-miracles-in-enlightenment-england-signed","title":"Miracles In Enlightenment England (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Very good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Very good\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Signed with inscription\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Book launch ephemera laid-in. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of Britain's Age of Reason lurks a profound and startling paradox: the same century that produced Newton's laws and Locke's philosophy was also convulsed by fevered reports of miraculous healings, prophetic visions, and divine interventions. Jane Shaw's Miracles in Enlightenment England chronicles this rich tension between rational thought and religious wonder, tracing how ordinary men and women in eighteenth-century England continued to believe in, seek out, and argue passionately about miracles — even as the intellectual establishment sought to consign such beliefs to superstition. Shaw examines a fascinating cast of believers, skeptics, and charlatans, placing their debates within the broader cultural and theological landscape of the era, illustrating how the miraculous was never truly banished from the Age of Reason but instead became a fiercely contested battleground for the soul of English society.\n\nShaw writes with the precision of a rigorous historian and the narrative flair of a skilled storyteller, drawing on an impressive range of primary sources — pamphlets, sermons, court records, and private correspondence — to reconstruct a world in which the boundaries between faith and science were far more porous than popular myth suggests. Miracles in Enlightenment England argues compellingly that the Enlightenment was not the triumph of secularism over religion, but rather a dynamic and often turbulent negotiation between competing visions of truth. Published by Yale University Press, this landmark work forces a fundamental reassessment of what it meant to be rational in an age when the miraculous refused to disappear — leaving the reader to wonder whether that age is really so different from our own.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203268780251,"sku":"2026100009694-SECONDHAND","price":120.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/cd88ed19-3399-4f8e-bc38-75ff4c019c0d.png?v=1788147102","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009694-secondhand-miracles-in-enlightenment-england-signed","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}