The theological origins of modernity /

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Exhuming the long-buried 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 b...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gillespie, Michael Allen
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Subjects:
Philosophy, Modern.
Philosophy and religion.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > General.
Philosophy and religion
Philosophy, Modern
Christendom.
Verlichting (cultuurgeschiedenis)
Humanisme (cultuurgeschiedenis)
Vroeg moderne tijd.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The nominalist revolution and the origin of modernity
  • Petrarch and the invention of individuality
  • Humanism and the apotheosis of man
  • Luther and the storm of faith
  • The contradictions of premodernity
  • Descartes' path to truth
  • Hobbes' fearful wisdom
  • The contradictions of enlightenment and the crisis of modernity.

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