ISBN:
9780674045637
,
0674045637
Language:
English
Pages:
574 Seiten
,
24 cm
Additional Information:
Rezension Strohm, Christoph, 1958 - [Rezension von: Brad S. Gregory, The unintended Reformation] 2015
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Rezension Oviedo Torró, Lluís, 1958 - Alle prese con la secolarizzazione 2014
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Rezension Lundin, Matthew "The unintended reformation" 2012
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Rezension Strohm, Christoph, 1958 - Brad S. Gregory, The unintended Reformation. How a religious revolution secularized society 2015
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Rezension Gregory, Brad S., The unintended Reformation: how a religious revolution secularized society 2012
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Rezension Appold, Kenneth G., 1965 - A world undone 2013
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Rezension Boersma, Hans, 1961 - Against nostalgia? 2013
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Rezension Cavanaugh, William T., 1962 - The modest claim of an immodest book 2013
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Rezension Radner, Ephraim, 1956 - "One world or two?" 2013
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Rezension Belt, Henk van den, 1971 - Trends in het reformatieonderzoek 2014
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Rezensiert in Ward, Haruko Nawata [Rezension von: Gregory, Brad S., 1963-, The unintended reformation]$aHaruko Nawata Ward 2015
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Rezensiert in Wriedt, Markus, 1958 - The Unintended Reformation. How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society 2014
Parallel Title:
Online-Ausg. Gregory, Brad S., 1963 - The Unintended Reformation
DDC:
211/.6091821
Keywords:
Secularism History
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Reformation
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Secularism
;
History
;
Reformation
;
Reformation
;
Säkularisierung
Abstract:
In a work that is as much about the present as the past, Brad Gregory identifies the unintended consequences of the Protestant Reformation and traces the way it shaped the modern condition over the course of the following five centuries. A hyperpluralism of religious and secular beliefs, an absence of any substantive common good, the triumph of capitalism and its driver, consumerism--all these, Gregory argues, were long-term effects of a movement that marked the end of more than a millennium during which Christianity provided a framework for shared intellectual, social, and moral life in the West. Before the Protestant Reformation, Western Christianity was an institutionalized worldview laden with expectations of security for earthly societies and hopes of eternal salvation for individuals. The Reformation`s protagonists sought to advance the realization of this vision, not disrupt it. But a complex web of rejections, retentions, and transformations of medieval Christianity gradually replaced the religious fabric that bound societies together in the West. Today, what we are left with are fragments: intellectual disagreements that splinter into ever finer fractals of specialized discourse; a notion that modern science--as the source of all truth--necessarily undermines religious belief; a pervasive resort to a
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: the world we have lost? -- Extruding God -- Relativizing doctrines -- Controlling the church(es) -- Subjectivizing morality -- Manufacturing the goods life -- Secularizing knowledge -- Conclusion: connecting some of the dots.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=35103
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