{"title":"Jonathan Sheehan","description":"\u003cp\u003eJonathan Sheehan's works delve into the intricate intersections of history, religion, and society. His explorations offer profound insights into the ways belief systems shape cultural and political landscapes, inviting readers to reconsider familiar narratives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith titles like \u003cem\u003eInvisible Hands\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eOn the Altar\u003c\/em\u003e, Sheehan blends rigorous scholarship with compelling storytelling, illuminating complex themes within History \u0026amp; Military as well as Religion \u0026amp; Spirituality. His books provide thoughtful reflections for those intrigued by the forces that influence human experience across time.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"invisible-hands-by-dror-wahrman-9780226824048","title":"Invisible Hands","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA synthesis of eighteenth-century intellectual and cultural developments that offers an original explanation of how Enlightenment thought grappled with the problem of divine agency.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhy is the world orderly, and how does this order come to be? Human beings inhabit a multitude of apparently ordered systems—natural, social, political, economic, cognitive, and others—whose origins and purposes are often obscure. In the eighteenth century, older certainties about such orders, rooted in either divine providence or the mechanical operations of nature, began to fall away. In their place arose a new appreciation for the complexity of things, a new recognition of the world’s disorder and randomness, new doubts about simple relations of cause and effect—but with them also a new ability to imagine the world’s orders, whether natural or manmade, as \u003ci\u003eself-organizing\u003c\/i\u003e. If large systems are left to their own devices, eighteenth-century Europeans increasingly came to believe, order will emerge on its own without any need for external design or direction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eInvisible Hands\u003c\/i\u003e, Jonathan Sheehan and Dror Wahrman trace the many appearances of the language of self-organization in the eighteenth-century West. Across an array of domains, including religion, society, philosophy, science, politics, economy, and law, they show how and why this way of thinking came into the public view, then grew in prominence and arrived at the threshold of the nineteenth century in versatile, multifarious, and often surprising forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOffering a new synthesis of intellectual and cultural developments, \u003ci\u003eInvisible Hands\u003c\/i\u003e is a landmark contribution to the history of the Enlightenment and eighteenth-century culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000653037804,"sku":"9780226824048","price":75.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/20468763482268.jpg?v=1763293997"},{"product_id":"on-the-altar-by-jonathan-sheehan-9780691190884","title":"On the Altar","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow Christianity both abolished and absorbed sacrifice\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the beginning, sacrifice lived a double life in Christianity, both abandoned and essential. Christ's death on the cross was the sacrifice to end all sacrifice, eclipsing the temple sacrifices of Judaism and paganism. And yet at the centre of the lived faith was the repetition of sacrifice: the offering of Christ's body, the sacrifices of ancient patriarchs, and the sacrifices of martyrs woven through liturgy, theology, and popular devotion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut this double life collapsed in the Reformation. Quarrelling heirs to Christian truth discovered that the sacrifices they once called Christian might be nothing of the sort. To build their new faiths— to discover the truth of Christian sacrifice— they turned to the past, learning from Christianity as it was how Christianity ought to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eOn the Altar\u003c\/i\u003e, Jonathan Sheehan offers a new account of sacrifice both sacred and secular. His story is in part a history of the Christian imagination across the centuries of the Reformation, when new martyrs and holy warriors fought for the truth of their sacrifices, when the empire of New World sacrifice was recruited to settle Christian conflicts, and when the sacrifices of the ancient Hebrews were weaponised for orthodoxy. But it is a history of the secular imagination as well, as the vast archive of Christian sacrifice was dispersed and applied to things that humans make, their religions, politics, and societies. With \u003ci\u003eOn the Altar\u003c\/i\u003e, Sheehan reveals a new history of both Christianity and the secular world in which we still live.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47932353118444,"sku":"9780691190884","price":69.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780691190884-on-the-altar.jpg?v=1783860731"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/jonathan-sheehan.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}