The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative, 1648-2013: - Iain Provan
The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative, 1648-2013:
How Did We Get Here And What Are We To Do?
By Iain Provan
March 25, 2013
1. Introduction
There is, of course, more than one way of thinking about the beginnings of the modern world, but the year 1648 is a fairly plausible starting point, so long as we understand that people did not just wake up one day in the course of that year and decide to be modern. It's a plausible starting point because 1648 saw the end of the Thirty Years War in Europe, which in various ways was a watershed event, or series of events, in European history. As the peoples of Europe put those terrible events behind them, they looked forward to a very different kind of world, and in due course they created one. And it is that world that was then exported and in due course globalized in the course of the 19th and 20th centuries in particular, such that there are very few places now on our planet that have not been profoundly influenced by modernity, whether for good or for ill.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
How Did We Get Here And What Are We To Do?
By Iain Provan
March 25, 2013
1. Introduction
There is, of course, more than one way of thinking about the beginnings of the modern world, but the year 1648 is a fairly plausible starting point, so long as we understand that people did not just wake up one day in the course of that year and decide to be modern. It's a plausible starting point because 1648 saw the end of the Thirty Years War in Europe, which in various ways was a watershed event, or series of events, in European history. As the peoples of Europe put those terrible events behind them, they looked forward to a very different kind of world, and in due course they created one. And it is that world that was then exported and in due course globalized in the course of the 19th and 20th centuries in particular, such that there are very few places now on our planet that have not been profoundly influenced by modernity, whether for good or for ill.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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