Atheism, fundamentalism and the Protestant Reformation : uncovering the secret sympathy

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Atheism, fundamentalism and the Protestant Reformation : uncovering the secret sympathy

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uncovering the secret sympathy

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Liam Jerrold Fraser, University of Edinburgh

Creator

• Fraser, Liam Jerrold, 1986-

Subject

• Atheism
• Christianity and atheism
• Fundamentalism
• Reformation

Language

eng

Summary

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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non fiction

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bibliography