Permanent revolution : the Reformation and the illiberal roots of Liberalism / James Simpson.
Permanent revolution : the Reformation and the illiberal roots of Liberalism / James Simpson.
Permanent revolution : the Reformation and the illiberal roots of Liberalism / James Simpson.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019.
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G 2019/5239
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English
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xv, 444 pages ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Part 1. Religion as revolution: Revolutionary religion -- Permanently revolutionary religion -- Part 2. Working modernity's despair: Modernizing despair -- Modernizing despair: lyric and narrative entrapment -- Modernizing despair's epic non-escape -- Part 3. Sincerity and hypocrisy: Pre-modern and...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019.
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Massachusetts
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2019.
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The proto-Liberalism of the late seventeenth century in England reverses all the central persuasions of illiberal evangelical religion of the early sixteenth century. Free-will, division of powers, non-literalist Biblical reading, aesthetics, theatricality: each reverses cardinal positions of Lutheran and Calvinist religion. How? Permanent Revoluti...
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Permanent revolution : the Reformation and the illiberal roots of Liberalism / James Simpson.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2019/5239
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74VKV5jbrKZl
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9780674987135
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274.206
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991024271618602626
