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Permanent Revolution - The Reformation and the Illiberal Roots of Liberalism (Hardcover)
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Permanent Revolution - The Reformation and the Illiberal Roots of Liberalism (Hardcover)
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How did the Reformation, which initially promoted decidedly
illiberal positions, end up laying the groundwork for Western
liberalism? The English Reformation began as an evangelical
movement driven by an unyielding belief in predestination,
intolerance, stringent literalism, political quietism, and
destructive iconoclasm. Yet by 1688, this illiberal early modern
upheaval would deliver the foundations of liberalism: free will,
liberty of conscience, religious toleration, readerly freedom,
constitutionalism, and aesthetic liberty. How did a movement with
such illiberal beginnings lay the groundwork for the Enlightenment?
James Simpson provocatively rewrites the history of liberalism and
uncovers its unexpected debt to evangelical religion.
Sixteenth-century Protestantism ushered in a culture of permanent
revolution, ceaselessly repudiating its own prior forms. Its
rejection of tradition was divisive, violent, and unsustainable.
The proto-liberalism of the later seventeenth century emerged as a
cultural package designed to stabilize the social chaos brought
about by this evangelical revolution. A brilliant assault on many
of our deepest assumptions, Permanent Revolution argues that far
from being driven by a new strain of secular philosophy, the
British Enlightenment is a story of transformation and reversal of
the Protestant tradition from within. The gains of liberalism were
the unintended results of the violent early Reformation. Today
those gains are increasingly under threat, in part because liberals
do not understand their own history. They fail to grasp that
liberalism is less the secular opponent of religious fundamentalism
than its dissident younger sibling, uncertain how to confront its
older evangelical competitor.
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