Secularism and its opponents from Augustine to Solzhenitsyn / Emmet Kennedy.

In this overview of secularism and its history, Kennedy traces, through a series of intellectual biographies of leading European thinkers, just how the Western world changed from religious to secular.

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Main Author: Kennedy, Emmet (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Saint Augustine, Christianity and the Roman Empire
  • Thomas Aquinas Christian Secularism
  • Dante and Lay Secularism of the High Middle Ages
  • Machiavelli, Religion and Politics
  • Luther's Centrifugal Reformation
  • Locke, Toleration, Infallibility and the Secular State
  • Rousseau, the Secular Hermit
  • Kant's Ambiguous Secularism
  • Hegel: Secular Philosophy Comprehending Theology
  • Marx, the Christian State, The Jewish Question and 'Species Being'
  • Dostoyevsky and European Secularism
  • Solzhenitsyn, Communism and the West.