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Idol Temples and Crafty Priests

Origins of Enlightenment Anticlericalism

  • Hardback
  • 216 pages
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.7 cm

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For those studying history and philosophy.

Explains why skepticism of the church grew.

Helps you trace roots of modern belief shifts.

An intellectual investigation into the origins of anticlerical thought from the Reformation to the Enlightenment.

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Barnett traces the Christian critique of the Church and its history in Protestant (English) and Catholic (Italian) thought from the Reformation to the Enlightenment. More than 150 years of bitter polemic between the two great confessions and their religious dissidents produced an unprecedented, comparative historical and sociological anticlericalism. In the last decades of the 17th century, English dissenting thought was pregnant with a critique of the Church, which came to be termed the "Deist" view of Church history: by 1700 the cornerstone of high "Enlightenment anticlerical thought" was in ascent. This work is intended for departments of history (courses in early modern European history, intellectual history), religious studies and philosophy.
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  • Title

    Idol Temples and Crafty Priests

  • Author

    S.j. Barnett

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Palgrave Macmillan

  • Published

    December 1998

  • Weight

    418g

  • Page Count

    216

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9780333725436

  • ISBN-10

    0333725433

  • Eden Code

    3809557