[lotuseclat79]

Roots of Fundamentalism traced to 16th-century Bible translations
Article here.

The English Reformation—heyday of religious change—spurred a fundamentalist approach to Bible reading, according to new research by a Harvard professor.

“Evangelical reading habits after 1525 were disciplinary, punishing and even demeaning,” says James Simpson, Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English in Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

In 1525, Protestant reformer William Tyndale translated the Bible into early modern English. Scholars have widely hailed that moment as a liberating step for the literate public, who could suddenly read the Bible on their own terms—without the constraints of priestly interpretation.

Simpson disagrees.

-- Tom

[poochee]

Originally Posted by lotuseclat79

Roots of Fundamentalism traced to 16th-century Bible translations
Article here.

In 1525, Protestant reformer William Tyndale translated the Bible into early modern English. Scholars have widely hailed that moment as a liberating step for the literate public, who could suddenly read the Bible on their own terms—without the constraints of priestly interpretation.

[SlackAli]

The abstract is a bit sketchy to give a deeper understanding of the idea, but I don't really see how it's taking the argument on from Max Weber's writings on the the sociology of religion in the late 19c. Weber identified extreme Protestant sects such as Calvinism heralding new attitudes to accumulation of wealth and social responsibility, being directly influential in the change to what Marx would call the capitalist mode of production after feudalism.

Central to these sects was the idea of predestination, and that certain people were 'chosen', irrespective of their attitude to the poor and the clerical class, and that the accumulation of wealth in itself was a sign of doing God's work. There was no hint of liberalism in Weber's view of the Reformation

[valis]

Originally Posted by lotuseclat79

Roots of Fundamentalism traced to 16th-century Bible translations
Article here.

The English Reformation—heyday of religious change—spurred a fundamentalist approach to Bible reading, according to new research by a Harvard professor.

“Evangelical reading habits after 1525 were disciplinary, punishing and even demeaning,” says James Simpson, Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English in Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

In 1525, Protestant reformer William Tyndale translated the Bible into early modern English. Scholars have widely hailed that moment as a liberating step for the literate public, who could suddenly read the Bible on their own terms—without the constraints of priestly interpretation.

Simpson disagrees.

-- Tom

I'd be willing to put a few deniro's down on the fact that there may be more than just Simpson disagreeing.