The Clean Slate by Allan Bloom



The Clean Slate by Allan Bloom

Learning from religious historians that religious activity in the United States flourished in the wake of post-revolutionary disestablishment, Allan Bloom recognized that pluralism and vitality in U.S. religion was not so much the product of a newly opened market as a precondition of it. Colonists with conflicting, often assertive, religious identities had previously settled in different regions of the nation-to-be (Bloom, 2009).

My Reaction to Allan Bloom's Essay

In the context of my reading I will say that theology is the systematic reflection on religious beliefs. Generally, religion is first experienced ...