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The Birth of Modern Belief - Faith and Judgment from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment (Hardcover)
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The Birth of Modern Belief - Faith and Judgment from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment (Hardcover)
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An illuminating history of how religious belief lost its
uncontested status in the West This landmark book traces the
history of belief in the Christian West from the Middle Ages to the
Enlightenment, revealing for the first time how a distinctively
modern category of belief came into being. Ethan Shagan focuses not
on what people believed, which is the normal concern of Reformation
history, but on the more fundamental question of what people took
belief to be. Shagan shows how religious belief enjoyed a special
prestige in medieval Europe, one that set it apart from judgment,
opinion, and the evidence of the senses. But with the outbreak of
the Protestant Reformation, the question of just what kind of
knowledge religious belief was-and how it related to more mundane
ways of knowing-was forced into the open. As the warring churches
fought over the answer, each claimed belief as their exclusive
possession, insisting that their rivals were unbelievers. Shagan
challenges the common notion that modern belief was a gift of the
Reformation, showing how it was as much a reaction against Luther
and Calvin as it was against the Council of Trent. He describes how
dissidents on both sides came to regard religious belief as
something that needed to be justified by individual judgment,
evidence, and argument. Brilliantly illuminating, The Birth of
Modern Belief demonstrates how belief came to occupy such an
ambivalent place in the modern world, becoming the essential
category by which we express our judgments about science, society,
and the sacred, but at the expense of the unique status religion
once enjoyed.
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