Christian Ethics and the Enlightenment

Given the flood of recent work on the British Moralists, Kant, and the history of modern ethics more generally, now is an opportune moment for reassessment by both detractors and defenders of Enlightenment moral thought. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, understandings of natural law, rights, and virtue were transformed in ways that deeply shaped subsequent moral thought. Is Enlightenment moral thought to be rejected for its individualism, stress on autonomy, overreliance on reason, and secularizing thrust? Is Enlightenment moral thought to be lauded for developing concepts of tolerance and individual rights which Christian ethics should embrace? Or do both of these positions rely on questionable characterizations of the period?