Scissor Work: On the Unintended Reformation

[Paul Mackin]

I've poked around here and there in the Kindle edition of Gregory's book.
The central thesis seems to be that without Divine authority, which
translates to ecclesiastical authority, the seven heavenly virtues ain't
got a chance.

On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 6:09 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>
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