The Counter-RenaissanceThis stimulating reassessment of Renaissance thought produces evidence of an intellectual revolt in the sixteenth century, led by such men as Calvin, Luther, Montaigne, and Machiavelli, that ran counter to the prevailing concepts of Christian humanism and the sovereignty of reason. The author explores the influence of this challenging movement on contemporaries and on their successors, "those enigmatic and volatile individuals whom we term the Elizabethans." Writing with impeccable scholarship, leavened by a delightful literary style, Mr. Haydn has achieved a masterpiece of intellectual history. -4e de couv. |
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... Christian truth , their rational allegiances with their Christian faith . They are representative of the men and points of view invoked by those scholars to whom " the tradition of Christian humanism seems a broad and central road ...
... Christian truth , their rational allegiances with their Christian faith . They are representative of the men and points of view invoked by those scholars to whom " the tradition of Christian humanism seems a broad and central road ...
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... Christian - classical ethic from its supranatural base , so that it ceased to be Christian . The application of this charge to men like Richard Hooker had little justification . His humanism was clearly balanced with tradi- tional Christian ...
... Christian - classical ethic from its supranatural base , so that it ceased to be Christian . The application of this charge to men like Richard Hooker had little justification . His humanism was clearly balanced with tradi- tional Christian ...
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... Christian elements . For while the metaphysical premise in this concept ( as in others of this world - view ) is pecul- iarly Christian , the roots of the theory of liberty - under - law are sunk in Greek ethical soil - a soil ...
... Christian elements . For while the metaphysical premise in this concept ( as in others of this world - view ) is pecul- iarly Christian , the roots of the theory of liberty - under - law are sunk in Greek ethical soil - a soil ...
Contents
PROLOGUE The Enigmatic Elizabethans | 1 |
2 The CounterRenaissance and the Vanity of Learning | 76 |
The CounterRenaissance and the Repeal of Universal | 131 |
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