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Professor James C. Turner PhD Americas English

eBook Without God, Without Creed: The Origins of Unbelief in America (New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History) ePub

Author: Professor James C. Turner PhD
Language: English
ISBN: 080182494X
ISBN13: 978-0801824944
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press; 1st Edition edition (January 1, 1985)
Pages: 336
Category: Americas
Subcategory: History
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Part Two: Modern Unbelief, 1865 - 1890 6. The Intellectual Crisis of Belief 7. The Immorality of Belief 8. A More Excellent Way 9. Sanctity Without Godliness.

Series: New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History. Part Two: Modern Unbelief, 1865 - 1890 6. Turner presents his theme in the preface. Religion caused unbelief in trying to adapt their religious beliefs to socioeconomic change, to new moral challanges, to novel problems of knowledge, to the tightening standards of society, the defenders of God slowly strangled him.

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Without God, Without Creed book. Nor was the New Testament immune, as shocked American found out when Strauss' Life of Jesus was translated into English. Turner's history of three centuries of unbelief in America is riveting scholarship and also sobering for all of us who lead the church today. For he claims that church leaders themselves are primarily responsible for creating the conditions in which unbelief grew.

Without God, Without Creed is a brilliant examination of this, one of the great cultural revolutions in Western .

Without God, Without Creed is a brilliant examination of this, one of the great cultural revolutions in Western civilization. How and why, James Turner asks, did it become possible for significant numbers of people to sustain disbelief in God? Without God, Without Creed is a brilliant examination of this, one of the great cultural revolutions in Western civilization.

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ISBN: 9780801834073, 0801834074. Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Until the 19th century, atheism and agnosticism were viewed as bizarre aberrations. But atheism emerged as a viable alternative to other ideologies. How and why it became possible is the subject of this cultural revolution. ISBN 13. 978-08-01834-07-3. The One, the Three and the Many: God, Creation and the Culture of Modernity, The 1992 Bampton Lectures.

Exceptional intellectual history. Published by Thriftbooks. com User, 14 years ago. A lot of history is presented in this book.

book by James C. Turner. Exceptional intellectual history. There's 269 pages of text with 34 pages of footnotes. I learned a lot just from the historical materials presented.

Without God, Without Creed. The Origins of Unbelief in America. Choose eBook Format -. Publication Date: 1986.

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The Origins of Agnosticism: Victorian Unbelief and the Limits of Knowledge by Bernard Lightman. James Moore - 1988 - Isis: A Journal of the History of Science 79:510-511. Awakening to Race: Individualism and Social Consciousness in America. Jack Turner - 2012 - University of Chicago Press. Charles Y. Glock - 1971 - In Rocco Caporale & Antonio Grumelli (ed., The Culture of Unbelief. Berkeley: University of California Press. Fisch. New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Co. 1939.

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Ken Myers on James Turner’s Without God, Without Creed: The Origins of Unbelief in America: This detailed and wide-ranging exercise in intellectual history is concerned with a single question regarding Western cultural life: How did the practically universal assumption of God disappear? . Like all the books I’ve discussed in this column, this one should be required reading by every pastor and seminary student. Without God, Without Creed presents a valuable case study of how forms of cultural adaptation that are well-intentioned and within the bounds of bare moral permissibility nonetheless can fall short of being constructive or beneficial.

Without God, Without Creed: The Origins of Unbelief in America. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985. o Puritans Hall, David D. Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1990. Errand into the Wilderness. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press, 1956. Miller, Perry, The New England Mind: From Colony to Province. Boston: Beacon Press, 1953. Morgan, Edmund S. The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop. New York: Longman, 1958.

Humanistic Relations of Science. James Turner," Isis 78, no. 3 (Se. 1987): 451-452. The History of Science and the Science of History: Computational Methods, Algorithms, and the Future of the Field. Gibson et al. Science and Orthodox Christianity: An Overview. Without God, Without Creed: The Origins of Unbelief in America. Of all published articles, the following were the most read within the past 12 months. The History of Medicine and the Scientific Revolution. Nicolaidis et al. Ten Problems in History and Philosophy of Science.

"A crafted, intelligent book. The prose is remarkably clear, as is the argument. Turner offers us intellectual history in something like the grand manner." -- Reviews in American History

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James C. Turner was a Professor of history at Notre Dame who specialized in intellectual history. In this 1985 book he set out to answer how unbelief in God became an intellectual possibility. Turner ultimately suggests that non-belief has religious roots, that the move to try to prove God rationally and accommodate religion and science in the eighteenth and nineteenth century ultimately made God seem implausible. As Turner explains in the book "If anyone is to be arraigned for deicide, it is not Charles Darwin but his adversary Bishop Samuel Wilberforce, not the godless Robert Ingersoll but the Godly Beecher family." (pg. xiii)

It's a persuasive argument. Turner makes clear how the choice to embrace Scottish Common Sense philosophy led to the creation of a rational religious belief. By the early nineteenth century theologians had little faith, they instead saw God as a necessary logical explanation for the world. The development of a scientific worldview that had little room for arguments from design or other divine explanations of nature caused disbelief because it undermined a century's worth of intellectual support for God. Turner speculates that theological traditions based on symbolic language and truth, like the liberal theology of Horace Bushnell or the intuition based ideas of the Transcendentalists might have been better able to support religious belief than the arguments of theologically orthodox Protestant theologians.

Turner's work is somewhat limited in geographic and chronological scope. The first section of the book, which covers intellectual history from 1500 to 1865, examines how both European and American intellectual culture contributed to non-belief. The second section, which covers 1865 to 1900, is entirely an American story about the rise of agnosticism. It's regrettable that Turner ends so early, before the rise of either prominent humanists or atheists.

While books have certainly come out since 1985 that touch on this topic, particularly Charles Taylor's "The Secular Age," Turner's book is still an important work. If you have an interest in religious studies, American intellectual history or secularization Turner's book will be insightful. It's intended for academic audiences, but I suspect it could comfortably be read by an upper level undergraduate. This book certainly deserves widespread recognition and readership.

Mallador

This is a "big picture" book, and an important historical study. This is the kind of work historians should be doing. The author writes well, keeping the reader's interest. I learned a lot from the book, and I recommend it to all who value Western civilization, who want to know how it developed, and who care about where it is going.