Scissor Work: On the Unintended Reformation

[David Morris]

It seems that "authority's" location is the big key.  External or
internal?  Codified or intrinsic/intuitive?  Jefferson trusted his own
authority via his scissors. Gregory not so much.

David Morris

On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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