2012 Arthur O. Lovejoy Lecture Civil Religion—Metaphysical, Not Political: Nature, Faith, and Communal Order in European Thought, c.1150–c.1550
“Civil religion” has been a topic much on the minds recently of intellectual historians, political theorists, social scientists, and others concerned about the relationship between the “public sphere” broadly construed and forms of religious belief. I argue that certain Christian thinkers during the...
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Language: | English |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
2013
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Journal of the history of ideas
Year: 2013, Volume: 74, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-22 |
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Summary: | “Civil religion” has been a topic much on the minds recently of intellectual historians, political theorists, social scientists, and others concerned about the relationship between the “public sphere” broadly construed and forms of religious belief. I argue that certain Christian thinkers during the medieval period accepted the view that religious faith formed a useful feature of social order, but they did so from an essentially metaphysical perspective. I consider the writings of John of Salisbury, Marsilius of Padua, and Bartolomé de Las Casas in support of my thesis. |
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ISSN: | 1086-3222 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of the history of ideas
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