Keeping Faith, Losing Faith: An Introduction
回顾了西方社会政治理论从早期依赖宗教解释到19世纪后经济学等社会科学完全世俗化的转变过程，适合对思想史或学科演变感兴趣的读者。
Although some of the early efforts of Western social and political theorists were made in opposition to religious interpretations of the world, religious belief held sway throughout the early modern period as the dominant means to interpret human experience. 1 Sometime in the nineteenth century, however, economics and the other social sciences began to develop analytical models that were completely severed from theology and religious belief. For example, in the late eighteenth century, Thomas Robert Malthus's famous Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) was animated by his religious beliefs, but by the late nineteenth century, Henry Sidgwick and Alfred Marshall were each working to develop an analytical apparatus that, while still focused heavily on social ethics, was completely secular.