Description: 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. "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
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EAN: 9780226293462
UPC: 9780226293462
ISBN: 9780226293462
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Book Title: The Theological Origins of Modernity by Gillespie,
Number of Pages: 400 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Theological Origins of Modernity
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Item Height: 0.1 in
Publication Year: 2009
Subject: Religious, History & Surveys / Modern, Political
Item Weight: 20 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Michael Allen Gillespie
Subject Area: Philosophy
Item Length: 0.9 in
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
