Gerald R. Cragg
Autore di The Church and the Age of Reason, 1648-1789
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Opere di Gerald R. Cragg
From Puritanism to the Age of Reason: A Study of Changes in Religious Thought within the Church of England 1660 to 1700 (1950) 25 copie
The Works of John Wesley, Vol. 11: The Appeals to Men of Reason and Religion and Certain Related Open Letters (1987) 19 copie
The Church & the World 2 copie
The age of reason 1648-1789 1 copia
The Cambridge Platonists / 1 copia
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- Nome legale
- Cragg, Gerald Robertson
- Data di nascita
- 1906
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Canada
- Luogo di nascita
- Japan
- Istruzione
- Victoria College, University of Toronto (philosophy, English, history)
University of Cambridge (Trinity College)
Westminster College, Cambridge, England
McGill University (Ph.D.) (1946) - Attività lavorative
- Professor of Systematic Theology
Lecturer in Christian Ethics
minister, United Church of Canada - Organizzazioni
- McGill University
United Theological College, Montreal, Canada
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- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 4
- ISBN
- 13
That said, I was able to work out a reasonable narrative from the book as a whole: the power of the state rises throughout this period, with the church often losing power (even, he suggests, in places like Spain, otherwise a strong supporter of Rome). This is aided by the tide of rationalism, deism and so on, which undermined the justifications for church power. And then, after the French revolution and its consequences, the restored monarchies or states took on the solid-seeming traditionalist mantle of religion: Catholicism in France, Protestantism elsewhere.
So, in the eighteenth century, we see Christian churches slowly lose power and influence, while the state gains it; after the revolutions, the church and state come together to create a very new, 'traditional' body of power. And that works wherever you look--the nineteenth century Anglican church was buried deep in the political structures of England; Catholicism was buried deep in the political structures of France and Spain, and so on and so forth.
No doubt this is the kind of wild generalization that will infuriate better informed contemporary scholars, but at least I got something from the book other than a chuckle at Cragg's deep repugnance for Unitarianism. Poor unitarianism.… (altro)