Dominic Erdozain
Biographic Data
| ID | 4688462 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dominic Erdozain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dominic |
| FAMILY NAME | Erdozain |
| SIGNATURE | ERDOZAIN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Church of America and the Heresy of Peace
America, said G. K. Chesterton, is a nation with the soul of a church. It is a sacred community commanding sacrificial loyalty. It is also a violent and weapon-loving civilization, in which force is tethered to patriotism and national identity. American culture is at once militarist and theological, Christian and violent. How can this paradox be explained? This article discusses the role of New England puritanism in establishing a providentialist…
Children of the Morning
This paper discusses the contribution of Christian spirituality to the emergence of modern ‘selfhood’ in a period typically associated with secular reasoning and loss of faith – the Enlightenment
Ethan H. Shagan. The Birth of Modern Belief
A heavenly poise
Scholarship continues to identify the Enlightenment with secularization, despite the theological tenor of much of the movement's canonical literature. This article proposes an explanation for such a dissonance, before addressing the matter more directly through the work of Baruch Spinoza and Pierre Bayle. The claim is that scholars have been unduly dependent upon theological commentary in reaching the fixed verdict of secularization, inferring ‘a…
Jesus and Augustine
This article explores a central current of religious doubt in the West, from Sebastian Castellio in the sixteenth century to Ludwig Feuerbach in the nineteenth. It argues that theologies of arbitrary judgment — chiefly Augustinian — have served as a major stimulus to scepticism and doubt in the modern era. The claim is that philosophical suspicion that the God of orthodoxy is an invention rests on a set of ethical intuitions, mostly Christian, le…
The Dissenters. Vol. III
The final instalment of a three-part series, this is a rich, substantial and rigorously documented history. In weight and detail it surpasses existing studies of its subject, with appendices alone running to more than one hundred pages. Michael R. Watts tells the story of religious dissent in England and Wales—‘the descendants of men like Oliver Cromwell’—from the Victorian high noon to the ‘Liberal Landslide’ election of 1906, when the Nonconfor…
How (Not) to Be Secular
It is a truth universally acknowledged that scholars in possession of superstar status are generally in want of an editor. Charles Taylor's A Secular Age (Taylor, 2007) has many virtues, but clarit
Cause is not quite what it used to Be
EXPLAINING ‘Why I am not a Christian’ in 1927, Bertrand Russell ridiculed the slavish dependency of theological apologetics on a certain kind of ‘science’. Sweeping aside the ‘cosmological argument’ as the time-bound optimism of the amateur, he gently advised that ‘cause is not quite what it used to be’. The comforting certainties of Newtonian physics were dissolving into a dizzying complex of radiant energies, suggesting that ‘a great many thing…
Does Sport Build Character? A Progress Report on a Victorian Idea
This paper discusses the Victorian idea that sport builds character, which was one of the inspirations for the modern Olympic movement and remains central to policy debates on sport. The argument is that sport, even in the highly moralised context of ‘muscular Christianity’, failed in this character-forming role, and should not be seen as a source of moral regeneration. The paper argues that the tendency to over-moralise sport, like the commercia…
Mark D. Chapman, Bishops, Saints and Politics
The Secularisation of Sin in the Nineteenth Century
This article argues that the post-secularisation historiography of the past twenty years has erred in neglecting theological categories of analysis. Committed to challenging the explanatory power of the secularisation thesis, it has established a new paradigm of ‘survival’ and ‘redefinition’, interpreting the sub-Christian morality of the twentieth century as a robust continuation of the pervasive Christianity of the nineteenth. A more theologica…
The Problem of Pleasure
The book combines intellectual, cultural and social history to address a major area of encounter between Christianity and British culture: the world of leisure. This book traces the rise and fall of the evangelical movement, the powerhouse of Victorian religion, via its preoccupation with pleasure. Victorian evangelicalism demonstrated an ability to excite the affections but also a corresponding suspicion of worldly pleasures. Suspicion developed…
Revival as Cultural Spotlight
Historians of religion should be used to seeing phenomena such as revivals ‘reduced’ to some other social or cultural phenomenon. Fifty years ago, Perry Miller was exasperated by attempts to explain the American Great Awakening in terms of ‘debtors against creditors’, ‘the common man against the gentry’ or any other such social relations. The Great Awakening, he insisted, was its own event and one that both illuminated and moulded the society tha…
Frank Prochaska, Christianity and Social Service in Modern Britain
Cause is not quite what it used to Be
EXPLAINING ‘Why I am not a Christian’ in 1927, Bertrand Russell ridiculed the slavish dependency of theological apologetics on a certain kind of ‘science’. Sweeping aside the ‘cosmological argument’ as the time-bound optimism of the amateur, he gently advised that ‘cause is not quite what it used to be’. The comforting certainties of Newtonian physics were dissolving into a dizzying complex of radiant energies, suggesting that ‘a great many thing…
The Secularisation of Sin in the Nineteenth Century
This article argues that the post-secularisation historiography of the past twenty years has erred in neglecting theological categories of analysis. Committed to challenging the explanatory power of the secularisation thesis, it has established a new paradigm of ‘survival’ and ‘redefinition’, interpreting the sub-Christian morality of the twentieth century as a robust continuation of the pervasive Christianity of the nineteenth. A more theologica…
The Problem of Pleasure
The book combines intellectual, cultural and social history to address a major area of encounter between Christianity and British culture: the world of leisure. This book traces the rise and fall of the evangelical movement, the powerhouse of Victorian religion, via its preoccupation with pleasure. Victorian evangelicalism demonstrated an ability to excite the affections but also a corresponding suspicion of worldly pleasures. Suspicion developed…
Revival as Cultural Spotlight
Historians of religion should be used to seeing phenomena such as revivals ‘reduced’ to some other social or cultural phenomenon. Fifty years ago, Perry Miller was exasperated by attempts to explain the American Great Awakening in terms of ‘debtors against creditors’, ‘the common man against the gentry’ or any other such social relations. The Great Awakening, he insisted, was its own event and one that both illuminated and moulded the society tha…
Frank Prochaska, Christianity and Social Service in Modern Britain
Revival as Cultural Spotlight
Historians of religion should be used to seeing phenomena such as revivals ‘reduced’ to some other social or cultural phenomenon. Fifty years ago, Perry Miller was exasperated by attempts to explain the American Great Awakening in terms of ‘debtors against creditors’, ‘the common man against the gentry’ or any other such social relations. The Great Awakening, he insisted, was its own event and one that both illuminated and moulded the society tha…
The Secularisation of Sin in the Nineteenth Century
This article argues that the post-secularisation historiography of the past twenty years has erred in neglecting theological categories of analysis. Committed to challenging the explanatory power of the secularisation thesis, it has established a new paradigm of ‘survival’ and ‘redefinition’, interpreting the sub-Christian morality of the twentieth century as a robust continuation of the pervasive Christianity of the nineteenth. A more theologica…
The Problem of Pleasure
The book combines intellectual, cultural and social history to address a major area of encounter between Christianity and British culture: the world of leisure. This book traces the rise and fall of the evangelical movement, the powerhouse of Victorian religion, via its preoccupation with pleasure. Victorian evangelicalism demonstrated an ability to excite the affections but also a corresponding suspicion of worldly pleasures. Suspicion developed…
Mark D. Chapman, Bishops, Saints and Politics
Cause is not quite what it used to Be
EXPLAINING ‘Why I am not a Christian’ in 1927, Bertrand Russell ridiculed the slavish dependency of theological apologetics on a certain kind of ‘science’. Sweeping aside the ‘cosmological argument’ as the time-bound optimism of the amateur, he gently advised that ‘cause is not quite what it used to be’. The comforting certainties of Newtonian physics were dissolving into a dizzying complex of radiant energies, suggesting that ‘a great many thing…
Does Sport Build Character? A Progress Report on a Victorian Idea
This paper discusses the Victorian idea that sport builds character, which was one of the inspirations for the modern Olympic movement and remains central to policy debates on sport. The argument is that sport, even in the highly moralised context of ‘muscular Christianity’, failed in this character-forming role, and should not be seen as a source of moral regeneration. The paper argues that the tendency to over-moralise sport, like the commercia…
How (Not) to Be Secular
It is a truth universally acknowledged that scholars in possession of superstar status are generally in want of an editor. Charles Taylor's A Secular Age (Taylor, 2007) has many virtues, but clarit
A heavenly poise
Scholarship continues to identify the Enlightenment with secularization, despite the theological tenor of much of the movement's canonical literature. This article proposes an explanation for such a dissonance, before addressing the matter more directly through the work of Baruch Spinoza and Pierre Bayle. The claim is that scholars have been unduly dependent upon theological commentary in reaching the fixed verdict of secularization, inferring ‘a…
Jesus and Augustine
This article explores a central current of religious doubt in the West, from Sebastian Castellio in the sixteenth century to Ludwig Feuerbach in the nineteenth. It argues that theologies of arbitrary judgment — chiefly Augustinian — have served as a major stimulus to scepticism and doubt in the modern era. The claim is that philosophical suspicion that the God of orthodoxy is an invention rests on a set of ethical intuitions, mostly Christian, le…
The Dissenters. Vol. III
The final instalment of a three-part series, this is a rich, substantial and rigorously documented history. In weight and detail it surpasses existing studies of its subject, with appendices alone running to more than one hundred pages. Michael R. Watts tells the story of religious dissent in England and Wales—‘the descendants of men like Oliver Cromwell’—from the Victorian high noon to the ‘Liberal Landslide’ election of 1906, when the Nonconfor…
Children of the Morning
This paper discusses the contribution of Christian spirituality to the emergence of modern ‘selfhood’ in a period typically associated with secular reasoning and loss of faith – the Enlightenment
Ethan H. Shagan. The Birth of Modern Belief
The Church of America and the Heresy of Peace
America, said G. K. Chesterton, is a nation with the soul of a church. It is a sacred community commanding sacrificial loyalty. It is also a violent and weapon-loving civilization, in which force is tethered to patriotism and national identity. American culture is at once militarist and theological, Christian and violent. How can this paradox be explained? This article discusses the role of New England puritanism in establishing a providentialist…
Philosophy (12 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Religious studies (8 works) · Theology (8 works) · History (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · History (6 works)