The Theological Origins of Modernity /

Gillespie, Michael Allen.

The Theological Origins of Modernity / Michael Allen Gillespie. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2008. - 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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Philosophy, modern.
Philosophy and religion.

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