Protestant Nation - The Fragile Christian Roots of America`s GreatnessAuthor :
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Published : Monday 4 March 2019
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Alain BesanAonâ?Ts studies, overA decades, on Russia, France, Islam, and art have convinced him that â?othat nothing is comprehensible if one neglects the religious choices thatA A A A A A determine a historical destiny.â?? His aim is to comprehend the most powerful nation onA A the earth, and he was convinced that Protestantism was the key to America. The question of Protestantism and its origins implicated, in turn, the origins of the Reformation andA thus the problem of the moral and political meaning of Christianity itself. And BesanAon traces theological dynamic that was to stamp the Reformation, behind Lutherâ?Ts breakA A with Rome, to the late medieval nominalistsâ?T failure to maintain the fragile communion that Thomas Aquinas had articulated between love and intellect. A A A A This then is the ambition of this elegant and magisterial essay: to explore the questionA of the spirit of America as bound up with the most fundamental and most problematic promise of Christianity: the union of heart and mind. This exploration leads the reader, after a deft analysis of Nominalism, through a luminous tour of the sources of modern Christianity that includes the revival of speculative mysticism in authors such as Meister Eckhart and Tauler, the devotion moderna, the main figures and movements of the Reformation proper, a brilliant digest of Anglicanism, and a survey of Puritanism in England and America. This uniquely synoptic exploration concludes with the emergenceA of a democratic religion of humanity, a faith whose future is as uncertain as its grasp ofA A the modern spiritâ?Ts Christian sources that Alain BesanAon has so judiciously laid bare. A
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