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The Birth of Modern Belief : Faith and Judgment from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment /

This landmark book traces the history of belief in the Christian West from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, revealing for the first time how a distinctively modern category of belief came into being. Ethan Shagan focuses not on what people believed, which is the normal concern of Reformation hi...

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Autor principal: Shagan, Ethan H., 1971- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2018]
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --  |t Contents --  |t Preface and Acknowledgments --  |t Introduction --  |t Chapter 1. Medieval Varieties of Believing --  |t Chapter 2. The Reformation of Belief --  |t Chapter 3. The Invention of the Unbeliever --  |t Chapter 4. The Unbearable Weight of Believing --  |t Chapter 5. The Birth Pangs of Modern Belief --  |t Chapter 6. Enlightened Belief --  |t Chapter 7. Belief in the Human --  |t Conclusion --  |t Abbreviations --  |t Notes --  |t Bibliography --  |t Index 
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