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Atheism, Fundamentalism and the Protestant Reformation
Liam Jerrold Fraser
其他書名
Uncovering the Secret Sympathy
出版Cambridge University Press, 2018-07-19
主題Religion / GeneralReligion / AtheismReligion / Christianity / HistoryReligion / PhilosophyReligion / Christian Theology / GeneralReligion / FundamentalismReligion / Theology
ISBN11084279879781108427982
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=xuRfDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.