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The Theological Origins of Modernity by Gillespie, Michael Allen is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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I almost gave this book 4 stars not because there are flaws in the material itself, but because it was so good I was disappointed that a publisher would hold it back from the even-higher greatness it might otherwise have. What am I referring to? "Islam-and-the-West." Islam is a hot topic these days - even Oxford University, as I understand it, recently constructed a building dedicated to Islamic studies on their campus. Michael Allen Gillespie (henceforth MAG - my apologies to the author) clearly did not set out to write a book about Islam, but it would seem that the publisher forced him to force his magnificent work into the mould of their Procrustean interests. The book is not really about Islam at all, but about Modernity's true genetics - not the history that Modernity tells to itself about how it was borne by affirming science and democracy in the face of the tyranny of the Roman Catholic Church. The first chapter, originally an article, and a concentrated blast of what is to follow through the rest of the book, has nothing at all to do with Islam or the "clash of civilizations," but has rather to do with where Western Europe came from and how that has led us to where we are p
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Gillespie, Michael Allen
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226293516
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Social Science, Religion
- Rating
- 4.1 / 5 (74 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14