Scissor Work: On the Unintended Reformation

[Paul Mackin]

The thing Gregory hates above all is pluralism in thought.

On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 1:39 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>>
>>
>>
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