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Michael Allen Gillespie
ISBN: 9780226293462
Format: Paperback
Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
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Exposing the religious roots of our ostensibly godless age, this study reveals that modernity is much less secular than conventional wisdom suggests. Beginning with the collapse of the medieval world, it 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.
Exposing the 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. He goes on to explore the ideas of such figures as William of Ockham, Petrarch, Erasmus, Luther, Descartes, and Hobbes, showing that modernity is best understood as a series of attempts to formulate a new and coherent metaphysics or theology.
| ISBN | 0226293467 | | Pages | 368 | | ISBN13 | 9780226293462
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | The University of Chicago Press | | Weight (grammes) | 522 | | Imprint | University of Chicago Press | | Published in | Chicago, IL | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 229 | | Publication date | 21 Aug 2009 | | Width (mm) | 152 | | DEWEY | 320.01 | | Spine width (mm) | 25 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate |
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"Bringing the history of political thought up to date and situating it against the backdrop of contemporary events, Gillespie's analyses provide us a way to begin to have conversations with the Islamic world about what is perhaps the central question within each of the three monotheistic religions: if God is omnipotent, then what is the place of human freedom?" - Joshua Mitchell, Georgetown University "This book is an excellent complement to Charles Taylor's A Secular Age and a powerful counterpoint to Mark Lilla's The Stillborn God. All three hold that the story of modern philosophy is both superficial and hollow if its theological/metaphysical components are denied. Highly recommended." - Choice"  Be the first to write a customer review
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