The Theological Origins of Modernity by Michael Allen Gillespie, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
The Theological Origins of Modernity by Michael Allen Gillespie, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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The Theological Origins of Modernity by Michael Allen Gillespie, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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Exposing the 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 beginning moderns sought not to eliminate religion but to support a new view of religion and its place in human life. He goes on to explore the ideas of such figures as William of Ockham, Petrarch, Erasmus, Luther, Descartes, and Hobbes, showing that modernity is best understood as a series of attempts to formulate a new and coherent metaphysics or theology. “Bringing the history of political thought up to date and situating it against the backdrop of contemporary events, Gillespie’s analyses provide us a way to begin to have conversations with the Islamic world about what is perhaps the central question within each of the three monotheistic religions: if God is omnipotent, then what is the place of human freedom?"—Joshua Mitchell, Georgetown University | The Theological Origins of Modernity by Michael Allen Gillespie, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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