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**How did the Reformation, which initially promoted decidedly illiberal positions, end up laying the groundwork for Western liberalism?**The English Reformation began as an evangelical movement driven by an unyielding belief in predestination, intolerance, stringent literalism, political quietism, and destructive iconoclasm. Yet by 1688, this illiberal early modern upheaval would deliver the foundations of liberalism: free will, liberty of conscience, religious toleration, readerly freedom, constitutionalism, and aesthetic liberty. How did a movement with such illiberal beginnings lay the groundwork for the Enlightenment? James Simpson provocatively rewrites the history of liberalism and uncovers its unexpected debt to evangelical religion.Sixteenth-century Protestantism ushered in a culture of permanent revolution, ceaselessly repudiating its own prior forms. Its rejection of tradition was divisive, violent, and unsustainable. The proto-liberalism of the later seventeenth century emerged as a cultural package designed to stabilize the social chaos brought about by this evangelical revolution. A brilliant assault on many of our deepest assumptions,__Permanent Revolution__argues tha

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Author

James Simpson

Publisher

Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674240544

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Christian, Literary Fiction, History