Are You Alone Wise? The Search for Certainty in the Early Modern Era

"The book is characterized by a mastery of sources primary and secondary and by profound insight into the intellectual and cultural transitions from the Middle Ages into modernity, ranging from philosophical problems of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, to Luther and Tyndale in the early Reformation, to Montaigne and Shakespeare at the end of the sixteenth century. This is a rich, rewarding, and highly significant study." -- Richard A. Muller, P. J. Zondervan Professor of Historical Theology, Calvin Theological Seminary

''With characteristic breadth of mind and vision, Schreiner combines deep knowledge and understanding of the overlapping fields of theology, philosophy, spirituality, culture and literature in order to project a history of the erratic human mind. Such an adventurous, interdisciplinary approach is often vulnerable to exposure of superficiality and pretentiousness, but happily not in her case. Every sentence she writes is formed in a way that conveys illumination to the reader." -- Ian Hazlett, Professor of Ecclesiastical History, University of Glasgow.

Susan E. Schreiner
''Are You Alone Wise? The Search for Certainty in the Early Modern Era''
ISBN: 978-0-19-531342-0 (Hardcover)
Oxford University Press 2011