The Theological Origins of Modernity autobiography Author: Akhil Reed Amar and

Author: Akhil Reed Amar and Les Adams

Far from having shaken off discredited ideology

were forced to make a painful and self-defeating choice—either to abandon Koranic Islam

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The Theological Origins of Modernity autobiography Author: Akhil Reed Amar andExposing the religious roots of our ostensibly godless age, Michael Allen Gillespie reveals in this landmark study that modernity is much less secular than conventional wisdom suggests. Taking as his starting point the collapse of the medieval world, Gillespie argues that from the very beginning moderns sought not to eliminate religion but to support a new view of religion and its place in human life. He goes on to explore the ideas of such figures as