{"title":"John Jeffries Martin","description":"\u003cp\u003eJohn Jeffries Martin’s work explores profound themes within \u003cem\u003eReligion \u0026amp; Spirituality\u003c\/em\u003e, inviting readers to reflect on the deeper meanings of life and faith. His writing often weaves thoughtful insights with a compelling narrative style that resonates with those seeking spiritual understanding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom contemplations on grace to explorations of hope and redemption, Martin’s books, including \u003cstrong\u003eA Beautiful Ending\u003c\/strong\u003e, offer a meaningful journey through the complexities of human experience and belief.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"a-beautiful-ending-by-john-jeffries-martin-9780300247329","title":"A Beautiful Ending","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn award-winning historian’s revisionary account of the early modern world, showing how apocalyptic ideas stimulated political, religious, and intellectual transformations.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Beautiful Ending\u003c\/em\u003e is described as “a masterful synthesis of the prognostications of faith, knowledge, and politics on a global stage. Martin’s book illuminates one of the enduring themes that shaped the medieval and early modern world.”—Paula E. Findlen, Stanford University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this revelatory immersion into the apocalyptic, messianic, and millenarian ideas and movements that created the modern world, John Jeffries Martin performs a kind of empathic time travel, entering into the psyche, spirituality, and temporalities of a cast of historical actors in profound moments of discovery. He argues that religious faith—Christian, Jewish, and Muslim—did not oppose but rather \u003cem\u003efostered\u003c\/em\u003e the making of a modern scientific spirit, buoyed along by a providential view of history and nature, and a deep conviction in the coming End of the World.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough thoughtful attention to the primary sources, Martin re‑reads the Renaissance, excavating a religious foundation at the core of even the most radical empirical thinking. Familiar icons like Ibn Khaldūn, Columbus, Isaac Luria, and Francis Bacon emerge startlingly fresh and newly gleaned, agents of a history formerly untold and of a modern world made in the image of its imminent end.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47383530799340,"sku":"9780300247329","price":61.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/24471033482294.jpg?v=1773373602"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/john-jeffries-martin.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}