Christian Humanism and the Puritan Social Order (Ideas in Context)
Christian Humanism and the Puritan Social Order (Ideas in Context)
ISBN: 9780521892285
出版社: Cambridge University Press
出版年: 2002-11-07
页数: 304
定价: USD 58.00
装帧: Paperback
内容简介
Traditional views of puritan social thought have done a great injustice to the intellectual history of the sixteenth century. They have presented puritans as creators of a disciplined, progressive, ultimately revolutionary theory of social order. The origins of modern society and politics are laid at the feet of zealous English protestants whose only intellectual debts are owed to Calvinist theology and the Bible. Professor Todd demonstrates that this view is fundamentally ahistorical. She places puritanism back in its own historical milieu, showing puritans as the heirs of a complex intellectual legacy, derived no less from the Renaissance than from the Reformation. The focus is on puritan social thought as part of a sixteenth-century intellectual consensus. This study traces the continuity of Christian humanism in the social thought of English protestants.
作者简介
玛戈·托德（Margo Todd）是美国田纳西州范德比尔特大学（Vanderbilt University）历史学教授，美国学术团体理事会研究员，皇家历史学会研究员。主要从事早期现代英格兰和苏格兰历史以及英国和美国早期改革派新教徒（即加尔文派教徒）的文化方面的研究。其主要著作除了本书以外，还有《走向革命的改革：早期现代英格兰的政治与宗教》以及最近出版的《早期现代苏格兰的清教徒文化》。本书曾荣获“今日朗文历史图书奖”和“年度苏格兰历史书籍奖”。