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The Transformation of Theology, 1830-1890: Positivism and Protestant Thought in Britain and America
By (Author) Charles D. Cashdollar
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Theology
230.01
Hardback
502
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
851g
Charles Cashdollar reinterprets nineteenth-century British and American Protestant thought by identifying positivism as the central intellectual issue of the era. Positivism meant, at first, the ideas of the French thinker Auguste Comte; later in the century, the term indicated a more general opposition to supernatural religion. Cashdollar shows th