Forces of Secularity in the Modern World: Volume 1

ISBN-13: 9781433143588 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 280 str.

Stephen Strehle

Opis

In this volume, author Stephen Strehle focuses his rigorous historical analysis and philosophical acumen upon a topic of great interest today and source of cultural wars around the globe-the process of secularization.

Recenzje

"This fascinating, but scholarly and wide-ranging, account lays bare the tangled roots of secularity in the Western world over recent centuries. In so doing, it casts a clear light on some of the major forces that are shaping the world we live in now."-Roger Trigg, Ian Ramsey Centre, University of Oxford

Spis treści

Introduction - The Rise of Acquisitive Capitalism in France - The Development of Acquisitive Capitalism and Social Darwinism in Britain - Enlightened History - The Mechanistic Universe - Innocent Suffering - Mr. Jefferson - The Development of the Wall - Postscript - Index.

O autorze

Stephen Strehle has doctoral degrees in church history and systematic theology from the Universität Basel and Dallas Theological Seminary. He is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Christopher Newport University, director of its program in Judeo-Christian studies, and the author of many books and articles on the Reformation and church/state issues.