Thoughts on Political Thought
An Introduction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6299299 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John E Trent (Department of Political Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ont., K1N 6N5, Canada., corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5-23 |
| Publication date | 1990-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0192-5121 • E-ISSN: 1460-373X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/019251219001100101 |
| OpenAlex | W1974530770 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
The religion that the British and the French brought to the New World was not a natural monotheism, like the Algonquin worship of a Great Spirit, nor an imperial monotheism like that of the Stoics, but a revolutionary monotheism, with a God who took an active part and partisan role in history; and like all revolutionary movements, including Marxism in our time, it equipped itself with a canon of Sacred books and a dialectical habit of mind, a mental attitude in which the neighbouring heresy is much more bitterly hated than the total rejection of faith. The dialectical habit of mind produced the conception of the false god, a conception hardly intelligible to an educated pagan.... The revolutionary aspect of white settlement extended from religion into economics as entrepreneurial capitalism developed
Capitalism · Cult · Dialectic · Epistemology · Faith · Heresy · Islam · Monotheism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Theology · Worship · Law · Philosophy · Political Theory and Influence · Religious studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |