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Civil Religion in Modern Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Tocqueville

Posted By: roxul
Date: 8 Aug 2022 14:56:54
Civil Religion in Modern Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Tocqueville

Steven Frankel, "Civil Religion in Modern Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Tocqueville"
English | ISBN: 0271086157 | 2020 | 256 pages | EPUB | 564 KB

Inspired by Machiavelli, modern philosophers held that the tension between the goals of biblical piety and the goals of political life needed to be resolved in favor of the political, and they attempted to recast and delimit traditional Christian teaching to serve and stabilize political life accordingly. This volume examines the arguments of those thinkers who worked to remake Christianity into a civil religion in the early modern and modern periods.
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