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What Caused Secularization? Yale Historian & Michael Horton on Radical Mystics and the Reformation

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Michael Horton is joined by Yale historian Carlos Eire to discuss his new book, Magician and Mechanic: The Roots of "Spiritual but Not Religious" from the Renaissance to the Scientific Revolution. Together, they explore the true story behind secularization and why the modern mind is natively anti-religious.

Magician and Mechanic

The second volume of Michael Horton's Divine Self series, a stunning history of "spiritual but not religious" thought in Western culture.

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