Dale K. Van Kley (July 31, 1941 – March 14, 2023)[1][2] was an American historian and professor of history at the Ohio State University.
[3] Van Kley wrote numerous books and articles, and taught and conducted research throughout North America and Europe.
book The Religious Origins of the French Revolution: From Calvin to the Civil Constitution, 1560-1791 (1996).
[citation needed] While extensive and diverse, his life's work focused on the contributions that Augustinian theology made to the concepts of liberty that underlay the Enlightenment and the French Revolution.
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