God and the Atlantic : America, Europe, and the Religious Divide
ISBN: 9780199671304 | 0199671303
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 3/1/2013
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Since the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, the United States and Western Europe's paths to modernity have diverged sharply with respect to religion. In short, Americans have maintained much friendlier ties with traditional forms of religion than their European counterparts. What explains this transatlantic religious divide?Accessing the topic though nineteenth and early twentieth-century European commentary on the United States, Thomas Albert Howard argues that an 'Atlantic gap' in religious matters has deep and complex historical roots, and e... MORE
1. Introduction
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2. The Traditionalist Critique: A "Ranting and Raving Tumult"
3. The Secularist Critique: "A Certain Backwardness of Thought"
II
4. Philip Schaff: Herr Doktor Professor in the American Frontier
5. Jacques Maritain: A French Thomist and the New World
6. Conclusion: The Double Helix and the Dialectic
Thomas Albert Howard is Professor of History at Gordon College.
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