Atheism, Fundamentalism and the Protestant Reformation Uncovering the Secret Sympathy

includes index and biblioraphy

1. The Unfinished Reformation .............16 Reformation to Revolution .........17 The Civil war ................31 Restoration and Restraint ..............35 Freethought in a Protestant key ................43 Re-narrating nature ..........56 2. Things fall Apart ........67 Dissenters and Evangelicals ...........69 The Gathering of Infidels .........73 Origins and ends ..............88 Walking apart ...........94 3. An Inductive theology ..........111 The Scottish philosophy ................113 An Evangelical Empire .............119 The Shock of the New ...........128 Death in Tennesse .............142 4. The Secret Sympathy ............149 Contemporary Context .........150 The bible : literal, univocal and perspecuous........159 Divine activity: Disruptive and substitutionary ..........173 Opposites Attract ...........188 5. A House divided .........205 New Atheists .......206 Protestant fundamentalists.........130 Dialectic of Protestantism .........130