Gillespie, Michael Allen.

The theological origins of modernity [electronic resource] / Michael Allen Gillespie. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008. - xiii, 386 p. ; 23 cm.

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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Palo Alto, Calif. :
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2009.
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Philosophy, Modern.
Philosophy and religion.


Electronic books.

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