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Piety and Humanity : Essays on Religion and Early Modern Political Philosophy by Kries, Douglas, Ed. is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
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The nature of the relationship between early modern political philosophy and revealed religion has been much debated. The contributors to Piety and Humanity argue that this relationship is one of dissonance rather than concord. They claim that the early modern political philosophers found revealed religion--especially Christianity--to be a threat to the modern political project, and that these philosophers therefore attempted to transform revealed religion so that it would be less of a threat, a
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- Author
- Kries, Douglas, Ed.
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
- Published
- 1997
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780847686186
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Christian, Religion, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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