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The theological origins of modernity / Michael Allen Gillespie.
De Gruyter University of Chicago Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gillespie, Michael Allen.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy, Modern.
- Philosophy and religion.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (402 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Exhuming the long-buried religious roots of our ostensibly godless age, Michael Allen Gillespie reveals in this landmark study that modernity is much less secular than conventional wisdom suggests. Taking as his starting point the collapse of the medieval world, Gillespie argues that from the very beginning moderns sought not to eliminate religion but to support a new view of religion and its place in human life—and that they did so not out of hostility but in order to sustain certain religious beliefs. He goes on to explore the ideas of such figures as William of Ockham, Petrarch, Erasmus, Lu
- Contents:
- The nominalist revolution and the origin of modernity
- Petrarch and the invention of individuality
- Humanism and the apotheosis of man
- Luther and the storm of faith
- The contradictions of premodernity
- Descartes' path to truth
- Hobbes' fearful wisdom
- The contradictions of enlightenment and the crisis of modernity.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-361) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611956868
- 9781281956866
- 1281956864
- 9780226293516
- 0226293513
- OCLC:
- 476229800
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