Examining the emergence of modernity within the philosophical and
political debates of the sixteenth century, Religion and the Rise
of Modernity resumes the analysis of the "great confusion"
introduced in Volume IV of History of Political Ideas. Encompassing
a vast range of events ignited by Luther's Ninety-Five Theses, this
period is one of controversy, revolution, and partiality.
Despite the era's fragmentation and complexity, Voegelin's
insightful analysis clarifies its significance and suggests the
lines of change converging at a point in the future: the medieval
Christian understanding of a divinely created dosed cosmos was
being replaced by a distinctly modern form of human consciousness
that acknowledges man as the proper origin of meaning in the
universe.
Analyzing the most significant features of the great confusion,
Voegelin examines a vast range of thought and issues of the age.
From the more obvious thinkers to those less frequently
represented, this volume features such figures as Calvin,
Althusius, Hooker, Bracciolini, Savonarola, Copernicus, Tycho de
Brahe, and Giordano Bruno. Devoting a considerable amount of
attention to Jean Bodin, Voegelin presents him as a prophet of the
new, true religion amid the civilizational disorder of the
post-Christian era. Focusing on the traditional arguments for
monarchy, just war theory, and the philosophy of law, this volume
also investigates the analyses of astrology, cosmology, and
mathematics.
Religion and the Rise of Modernity is a valuable work of
scholarship not only because of its treatment of individual
thinkers and doctrines influential in the sixteenth century but
also because of its close examination of those experiencesthat
formed the modern outlook.
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