A Reformation of the mind. Protestantism and western culture
Description
At the core of the Protestant Revolution was a new emphasis on exploring and questioning the natural world. This program shows how a religious upheaval that began a half-millennium ago led to the art, literature, and science of today's Western society. The film makes the case that a humanistic approach to art first grew out of the Protestant drive to remove images from European churches in the 16th and 17th centuries. It also examines the development of the modern novel via the Protestant-informed writings of John Bunyan, Daniel DeFoe, and Charles Dickens-then reveals the Protestant underpinnings of Newtonian physics, Darwin's theories, and our technological culture.
Runtime
60 min
Series
Subjects
- Christianity (216)
- Religious institutions (185)
- Institutionalism (Religion) (54)
- Renaissance (109)
- Reformation (106)
- Religion and sociology (173)
- Religions (331)
- Theology (76)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2009], c2006
Database
Films on Demand
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