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Are You Alone Wise? - The Search for Certainty in the Early Modern Era (Paperback)
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Are You Alone Wise? - The Search for Certainty in the Early Modern Era (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Studies in Historical Theology
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The topic of certitude is much debated today. On one side,
commentators such as Charles Krauthammer urge us to achieve "moral
clarity." On the other, those like George Will contend that the
greatest present threat to civilization is an excess of certitude.
To address this uncomfortable debate, Susan Schreiner turns to the
intellectuals of early modern Europe, a period when thought was
still fluid and had not yet been reified into the form of
rationality demanded by the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Schreiner argues that Europe in the sixteenth century was
preoccupied with concerns similar to ours; both the desire for
certainty - especially religious certainty - and warnings against
certainty permeated the earlier era. Digging beneath overt
theological and philosophical problems, she tackles the underlying
fears of the period as she addresses questions of salvation,
authority, the rise of skepticism, the outbreak of religious
violence, the discernment of spirits, and the ambiguous
relationship between appearance and reality. In her examination of
the history of theological polemics and debates (as well as other
genres), Schreiner sheds light on the repeated evaluation of
certainty and the recurring fear of deception. Among the texts she
draws on are Montaigne's Essays, the mystical writings of Teresa of
Avila, the works of Reformation fathers William of Occam, Luther,
Thomas Muntzer, and Thomas More; and the dramas of Shakespeare. The
result is not a book about theology, but rather about the way in
which the concern with certitude determined the theology, polemics
and literature of an age.
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