Author: Van A. Harvey
Van A. Harvey is professor of religion at Stanford University and the author of The Historian and the Believer, among many other books.
Religious Belief and the Logic of Historical Inquiry
The two great intellectual revolutions in modern Western culture were the Enlightenment in the eighteenth century and the awakening of the historical consciousness in the nineteenth century. The themes of the first are familiar to us all: the notion of natural rights, the emphasis on reason rather than faith, freedom of the press, and the …
The Re-Discovery of Ludwig Feuerbach
In the nineteenth century, he was recognized as Europe’s most famous and powerful atheist, the herald of a new anti- Christian and anti-idealist era. In the twentieth, he is men-tioned only in passing as one of the influences on the young Karl Marx and as a precursor of Sigmund Freud, who believed that the gods …
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