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The theological origins of modernity [electronic resource] / Michael Allen Gillespie.

By: Gillespie, Michael Allen.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008Description: xiii, 386 p. ; 23 cm.Subject(s): Philosophy, Modern | Philosophy and religionGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 190 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
The nominalist revolution and the origin of modernity -- Petrarch and the invention of individuality -- Humanism and the apotheosis of man -- Luther and the storm of faith -- The contradictions of premodernity -- Descartes' path to truth -- Hobbes' fearful wisdom -- The contradictions of enlightenment and the crisis of modernity.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-361) and index.

The nominalist revolution and the origin of modernity -- Petrarch and the invention of individuality -- Humanism and the apotheosis of man -- Luther and the storm of faith -- The contradictions of premodernity -- Descartes' path to truth -- Hobbes' fearful wisdom -- The contradictions of enlightenment and the crisis of modernity.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.