Atheism, Fundamentalism and the Protestant Reformation: Uncovering the Secret Sympathy - Couverture rigide

Fraser, Liam Jerrold

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1108427987 ISBN 13 : 9781108427982

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2018

Synopsis

In this study of new atheism and religious fundamentalism, this book advances two provocative - and surprising - arguments. Liam Jerrold Fraser argues that atheism and Protestant fundamentalism in Britain and America share a common historical origin in the English Reformation, and the crisis of authority inaugurated by the Reformers. This common origin generated two presuppositions crucial for both movements: a literalist understanding of scripture, and a disruptive understanding of divine activity in nature. Through an analysis of contemporary new atheist and Protestant fundamentalist texts, Fraser shows that these presuppositions continue to structure both groups, and support a range of shared biblical, scientific, and theological beliefs. Their common historical and intellectual structure ensures that new atheism and Protestant fundamentalism - while on the surface irreconcilably opposed - share a secret sympathy with one another, yet one which leaves them unstable, inconsistent, and unsustainable.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Liam Jerrold Fraser is a Minister of Word and Sacrament of the Church of Scotland.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1108427987
• ISBN 13: 9781108427982
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 278
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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