Reformation Or Revolution, Which?
Author : Victoria Claflin Woodhull
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 14,87 MB
Release : 1873
Category : Anarchism
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Author : Victoria Claflin Woodhull
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 14,87 MB
Release : 1873
Category : Anarchism
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Author : Robert Ashton
Publisher : Granada
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 33,26 MB
Release : 1984
Category : History
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Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 22,1 MB
Release : 1873
Category :
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Author : Brad S. Gregory
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 49,16 MB
Release : 2015-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 067426407X
In a work that is as much about the present as the past, Brad Gregory identifies the unintended consequences of the Protestant Reformation and traces the way it shaped the modern condition over the course of the following five centuries. A hyperpluralism of religious and secular beliefs, an absence of any substantive common good, the triumph of capitalism and its driver, consumerism—all these, Gregory argues, were long-term effects of a movement that marked the end of more than a millennium during which Christianity provided a framework for shared intellectual, social, and moral life in the West. Before the Protestant Reformation, Western Christianity was an institutionalized worldview laden with expectations of security for earthly societies and hopes of eternal salvation for individuals. The Reformation’s protagonists sought to advance the realization of this vision, not disrupt it. But a complex web of rejections, retentions, and transformations of medieval Christianity gradually replaced the religious fabric that bound societies together in the West. Today, what we are left with are fragments: intellectual disagreements that splinter into ever finer fractals of specialized discourse; a notion that modern science—as the source of all truth—necessarily undermines religious belief; a pervasive resort to a therapeutic vision of religion; a set of smuggled moral values with which we try to fertilize a sterile liberalism; and the institutionalized assumption that only secular universities can pursue knowledge. The Unintended Reformation asks what propelled the West into this trajectory of pluralism and polarization, and finds answers deep in our medieval Christian past.
Author : Christopher Hill
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,11 MB
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1786636190
The masterful account of Britain’s reshaping as a modern nation In 1530 England was a backward economy. Yet by 1780 she possessed a global empire and was on the verge of becoming the world’s first industrialized power. This book deals with the intervening 250 years, and explains how England acquired this unique position in history. Esteemed historian Christopher Hill recounts a story that begins with the break with Europe before hitting a tumultuous period of war and revolution, combined with a cultural and scientific flowering that made up the early modern period. It was in this era that Britain became home to imperial ambitions and economic innovation, prefiguring what was to come. Hill excavates the conditions and ideas that underpin this age of extraordinary change, and shows how, and why, Britain became the most powerful nation in the world.
Author : De Lamar Jensen
Publisher : D. C. Heath and Company
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 40,85 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN :
For full description, see Renaissance Europe: Age of Recovery and Reconciliation, 2/e.
Author : Jack A. Goldstone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 20,44 MB
Release : 2023
Category : History
ISBN : 0197666302
"In the 20th and 21st century revolutions have become more urban, often less violent, but also more frequent and more transformative of the international order. Whether it is the revolutions against Communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR; the "color revolutions" across Asia, Europe and North Africa; or the religious revolutions in Iran, Afghanistan, and Syria; today's revolutions are quite different from those of the past. Modern theories of revolution have therefore replaced the older class-based theories with more varied, dynamic, and contingent models of social and political change. This new edition updates the history of revolutions, from Classical Greece and Rome to the Revolution of Dignity in the Ukraine, with attention to the changing types and outcomes of revolutionary struggles. It also presents the latest advances in the theory of revolutions, including the issues of revolutionary waves, revolutionary leadership, international influences, and the likelihood of revolutions to come. This volume provides a brief but comprehensive introduction to the nature of revolutions and their role in global history"--
Author : Victoria Claflin Woodhull
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 19,53 MB
Release : 1873
Category : Anarchism
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Author : Lyke de Vries
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 42,38 MB
Release : 2021-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9004249397
At the centre of the Rosicrucian manifestos was a call for ‘general reformation’. In Reformation, Revolution, Renovation, the first book-length study of this topic, Lyke de Vries demonstrates the unique position of the Rosicrucian call for reform in the transformative context of the early seventeenth century. The manifestos, commonly interpreted as either Lutheran or esoteric, are here portrayed as revolutionary mission statements which broke dramatically with Luther’s reform ideals. Their call for reform instead resembles a variety of late medieval and early modern dissenting traditions as well as the heterodox movement of Paracelsianism. Emphasising the universal character of the Rosicrucian proposal for change, this new genealogy of the core idea sheds fresh light on the vexed question of the manifestos’ authorship and helps explain their tumultuous reception by both those who welcomed and those who deplored them.
Author : Daniel De Leon
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 28,68 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Socialism
ISBN :