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Atheism, Fundamentalism and the Protestant Reformation - Uncovering the Secret Sympathy (Hardcover)
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Atheism, Fundamentalism and the Protestant Reformation - Uncovering the Secret Sympathy (Hardcover)
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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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