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Words, Works, and Ways of Knowing (Hardcover)
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Words, Works, and Ways of Knowing (Hardcover)
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Crime writer Sara Paretsky is known the world over for her
acclaimed series of mysteries starring Chicago private investigator
V. I. Warshawski, now in its seventeenth installment. Paretsky's
work has long been inflected with history--for her characters the
past looms large in the present--and in her decades-long career,
she has been recognized for transforming the role of women in
contemporary crime fiction. What's less well-known is that before
Paretsky began her writing career, she earned a PhD in history from
the University of Chicago with a dissertation on moral philosophy
and religion in New England in the early and mid-nineteenth
century. Now, for the first time, fans of Paretsky can read that
earliest work, Words, Works, and Ways of Knowing. Paretsky here
analyzes attempts by theologians at Andover Seminary, near Boston,
to square and secure Calvinist religious beliefs with emerging
knowledge from history and the sciences. She carefully shows how
the open-minded scholasticism of these theologians paradoxically
led to the weakening of their intellectual credibility as
conventional religious belief structures became discredited, and
how this failure then incited reactionary forces within Calvinism.
That conflict between science and religion in the American past is
of interest on its face, but it also sheds light on contemporary
intellectual battles. Rounding out the book, leading religious
scholar Amanda Porterfield provides an afterword discussing where
Paretsky's work fits into the contemporary study of religion. And
in a sobering--sometimes shocking--preface, Paretsky paints a
picture of what it was like to be a female graduate student at the
University of Chicago in the 1970s. A treat for Paretsky's many
fans, this book offers a glimpse of the development of the mind
behind the mysteries.
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