Confronting Religious Absolutism

by Catherine M Wallace and Catherine M. Wallace

Book Overview

Papal infallibility and biblical inerrancy provide the conceptual foundations of theocracy, which is to say religiously-based totalitarianism. These absolutist doctrines emerge for the very first time among the Victorians: they are not ancient beliefs at all. They appear in the 19th century, right alongside secular varieties totalitarian thought, and in response to all the same cultural anxieties. Reactionary religious leaders used these doctrines...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498228844
• ISBN13: 9781498228848
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.4"