Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 269 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781108552141
Content:
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
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-108-42798-2
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
,
Theology
Keywords:
Großbritannien
;
USA
;
Atheismus
;
Fundamentalismus
;
Reformation
DOI:
10.1017/9781108552141
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