Atheism, Fundamentalism and the Protestant Reformation
Uncovering the Secret Sympathy
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Atheism, Fundamentalism and the Protestant Reformation
Uncovering the Secret Sympathy
About This Book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The Unfinished Reformation
- 2 Things Fall Apart
- 3 An Inductive Theology
- 4 The Secret Sympathy
- 5 A House Divided
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index