This wonderful little book, drawn from Louis Dupré’s 2005–06 Erasmus Lectures at the University of Notre Dame, narrates the development of modern culture from its roots in early Christian encounters with Aristotelianism, through the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the rise of modern atheism, and on to the poetry, philosophy, and theology of the German Romantics. It closes (...)
January 30, 2009
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After Enlightenment
Religion and the Rise of Modern CultureLouis DupréUniversity of Notre Dame Press, $25, 136 pp.
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