Christian Humanism and the Puritan Social Order Revised Edition Contributor(s): Todd, Margo (Author), Skinner, Quentin (Editor), Tully, James (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521892287 ISBN-13: 9780521892285 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $39.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2002 Annotation: Traditional views of puritan social thought have done a great injustice to the intellectual history of the sixteenth century. They have presented puritans as creators of a disciplined, progressive, ultimately revolutionary theory of social order. The origins of modern society and politics are laid at the feet of zealous English protestants whose only intellectual debts are owed to Calvinist theology and the Bible. Professor Todd demonstrates that this view is fundamentally ahistorical. She places puritanism back in its own historical milieu, showing puritans as the heirs of a complex intellectual legacy, derived no less from the Renaissance than from the Reformation. The focus is on puritan social thought as part of a sixteenth-century intellectual consensus. This study traces the continuity of Christian humanism in the social thought of English protestants. |
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BISAC Categories: - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
Dewey: 285.909 |
Series: Ideas in Context |
Physical Information: 0.79" H x 6.08" W x 9.03" (1.01 lbs) 304 pages |