Gregory, Brad S.

The Unintended Reformation How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society Brad S. Gregory - U.S.A. Harvard University Press 2012 - 574tr. hardcover, illustrations 24 cm

In a work as much about the present as the past, Gregory identifies the unintended consequences of the Reformation for the modern condition: a hyperpluralism of beliefs, intellectual disagreements that splinter into fractals of specialized discourse, the absence of a substantive common good, and the triumph of capitalism's 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...

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Atheism


Reformation
Natural theology
Secularism -- History

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