Scissor Work: On the Unintended Reformation

[ish mailian]

Jefferson’s sharp-edged Bible study hardly makes him unique in the
annals of skeptical investigations of Christianity or any other
religion, for critically engaged belief has always left a deep imprint
on the content of religious texts. But was Jefferson’s scissor work a
profound act of faith or an assault on the very notion of divinity?
This question lies at the heart of Brad Gregory’s passionate and
polemical book, The Unintended Reformation. Gregory, a history
professor at the University of Notre Dame and a well-known scholar of
the European Reformation, seeks to upend longstanding assumptions
about the process by which Western secularism, capitalism and
individualism have emerged since the Reformation.

https://www.thenation.com/article/scissor-work-unintended-reformation/
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