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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      29 June 2018
      19 July 2018
      ISBN:
      9781108552141
      9781108427982
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108552141
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.54kg, 278 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      History, Religion, Theology, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
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    In this study of new atheism and religious fundamentalism, this book advances two provocative - and surprising - arguments. Liam Jerrold Fraser argues that atheism and Protestant fundamentalism in Britain and America share a common historical origin in the English Reformation, and the crisis of authority inaugurated by the Reformers. This common origin generated two presuppositions crucial for both movements: a literalist understanding of scripture, and a disruptive understanding of divine activity in nature. Through an analysis of contemporary new atheist and Protestant fundamentalist texts, Fraser shows that these presuppositions continue to structure both groups, and support a range of shared biblical, scientific, and theological beliefs. Their common historical and intellectual structure ensures that new atheism and Protestant fundamentalism - while on the surface irreconcilably opposed - share a secret sympathy with one another, yet one which leaves them unstable, inconsistent, and unsustainable.

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