Description
This then is the ambition of this elegant and magisterial essay: to explore the question of the spirit of America as bound up with the most fundamental and most problematic promise of Christianity: the union of heart and mind. This exploration leads the reader, after a deft analysis of Nominalism, through a luminous tour of the sources of modern Christianity that includes the revival of speculative mysticism in authors such as Meister Eckhart and Tauler, the devotion moderna, the main figures and movements of the Reformation proper, a brilliant digest of Anglicanism, and a survey of Puritanism in England and America. This uniquely synoptic exploration concludes with the emergence of a democratic religion of humanity, a faith whose future is as uncertain as its grasp of the modern spirit's Christian sources that Alain Besancon has so judiciously laid bare.
Book Information
ISBN 9781587316654
Author Alain Besancon
Format Hardback
Page Count 288
Imprint St Augustine's Press
Publisher St Augustine's Press
Weight(grams) 386g
Dimensions(mm) 239mm * 156mm * 19mm