Modernity and the Reinvention of Tradition : Backing into the Future (Paperback)

Introduction: ancient & modern: the Braid of Cassiodorus; 1. Tradition, literacy and change; 2. Church versus Scripture: idea of Biblical tradition; 3. Tradition and revolution; 4. Envisioning the past: metaphors and symbols of tradition; 5. Re-inventing Christian culture: Volney, Chateaubriand and the French Revolution; 6. Herder, Schleiermacher, Novalis, and Schlegel: the idea of a Christian Europe?; 7. Translating Herder: the idea of Protestant Romanticism; 8. Keble and the Anglican tradition; 9. Newman and the development of tradition; 10. Arnold: taking religion out of religion; 11. Radical tradition: theologizing Eliot; Epilogue: re-energizing the past; Appendix: Velazquez and the Royal Boar Hunt; Bibliography; Index.