Scissor Work: On the Unintended Reformation

[David Morris]

Right.  If authority isn't external, located in a single person or place
with only a single interpretation, it is essentially chaos in those with
that mindset.

On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 2:54 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com> wrote:

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