HIS340H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Industrial Revolution, Natural Product, Toleration
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Not about appealing to the emotions and passions of the people. They are going to appeal to people"s minds. Keith thomas says that this mentality will take the magic out of religion. He is thinking about the impact in the long term. He is talking about the secularization of society. Religion was the fabric of everyday life and then it wasn"t. Impact and legacy of the roman catholic church. 1: some of the criticisms of the church in the late 1400s, be very skeptical of the idea of a corrupt church leading to the rise of. Protestantism: this does not explain the popularity of protestantism, that idea is the result of protestant propaganda. He does not proclaim this as a sort of triumph. Quite the opposite, he says this with a profound sense of dread. Christianity (primarily catholic christianity) provided the foundation for european values and morality. He is living in a time of profound economical, social, and political change.
