Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xxiii, 146 pages)
ISBN:
9780227901861
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022790186X
Inhalt:
Much of the emerging protestantism of the sixteenth century produced a Reformation in conscious opposition to formal philosophy. Nevertheless, sectors of the Reformation produced a spiritualizing form of Platonism in the drive for correct devotion. Out of an understandable fear of idolatry or displacement of the uniquely redemptive place of Christ, Christian piety moved away from the senses and the material world - freshly uncovered in the Reformation.This volume argues, however, that in the quest for restoring "true religion", sectors of the Protestant tradition impugned too severely the ma
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references
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Front cover ; Denuded Devotion to Christ; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1. The Rational Philosophical Consciousness; 2. Karlstadt, Zwingli, and Calvin on True Religion; 3. Protestantism and Rationalism; 4. The Aesthetic in the Practice of True Religion; 5. True Religion and the Philosophical Consciousness; Afterword -- True Religion and Puritan Consciousness; Bibliography; Back cover
Sprache:
Englisch
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