Atheism, Fundamentalism and the Protestant Reformation: Uncovering the Secret Sympathy

di Liam Jerrold Fraser (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 2018

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.

• Autore: Liam Jerrold Fraser
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Anno: 2018
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 278 p.
• Dimensioni: 235 x 158 mm
• Peso: 540 gr.
• EAN: 9781108427982

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