Forces of Secularity in the Modern World
volume 1
$323.26
- Hardcover
280 pages
- Release Date
15 March 2018
Summary
Stephen Strehle is a leading scholar of church/state issues. In this volume, he focuses his rigorous historical analysis and philosophical acumen upon a topic of great interest today and source of cultural wars around the globe—the process of secularization. The book starts with a discussion of early capitalism and how it saw the real world functioning well-enough on its own principles of individual struggle and self-interest, without needing religious or moral principles to meddle in its …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781433143588 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1433143585 |
| Author: | Stephen Strehle, Joseph Prud'homme |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang Publishing Inc |
| Imprint: | Peter Lang Publishing Inc |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 280 |
| Release Date: | 15 March 2018 |
| Weight: | 480g |
| Dimensions: | 225mm x 150mm |
| Series: | Washington College Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture |
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“This fascinating, but scholarly and wide-ranging, account lays bare the tangled roots of secularity in the Western world over recent centuries. In so doing, it casts a clear light on some of the major forces that are shaping the world we live in now.”—Roger Trigg, Ian Ramsey Centre, University of Oxford
About The Author
Stephen Strehle
Stephen Strehle has doctoral degrees in church history and systematic theology from the Universität Basel and Dallas Theological Seminary. He is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Christopher Newport University, director of its program in Judeo-Christian studies, and the author of many books and articles on the Reformation and church/state issues.
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