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Religion, Reason and Nature in Early Modern Europe

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  • © 2001

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  1. Robert Crocker

    1. University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. The Regularization of Providence in Post-Cartesian Philosophy

    • Stuart Brown
    Pages 1-16

  3. Grotius: Natural Law and Natural Religion

    • Jacqueline Lagree
    Pages 17-39

  4. The Paradoxes of Modernity: Rational Religion and Mythical Science in the Novels of Cyrano de Bergerac

    • Margaret Sankey
    Pages 41-59

  5. Ralph Cudworth, God, Mind and Nature

    • Sarah Hutton
    Pages 61-76

  6. Henry More and the Preexistence of the Soul

    • Robert Crocker
    Pages 77-96

  7. Robert Boyle, ’The Christian Virtuoso’ and the Rhetoric of ’Reason’

    • Lotte Mulligan
    Pages 97-116

  8. Spinoza and Boyle: Rational Religion and Natural Philosophy

    • Luisa Simonutti
    Pages 117-138

  9. Nature, Man and God in the English Enlightenment

    • G. A. J. Rogers
    Pages 139-158

  10. Newton’s Theocentric Cosmogony and Hume’s Cometary ‘Seeds’

    • James E. Force
    Pages 159-179

  11. The Image of Judaism in Seventeenth Century Europe

    • Richard H. Popkin
    Pages 181-197

  12. Scaling the Ladder of Being: Theology and Early Theories of Evolution

    • Peter Harrison
    Pages 199-224

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 225-236
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From a variety of perspectives, the essays presented here explore the profound interdependence of natural philosophy and rational religion in the `long seventeenth century' that begins with the burning of Bruno in 1600 and ends with the Enlightenment in the early Eighteenth century. From the writings of Grotius on natural law and natural religion, and the speculative, libertin novels of Cyrano de Bergerac, to the better-known works of Descartes, Malebranche, Cudworth, Leibniz, Boyle, Spinoza, Newton, and Locke, an increasing emphasis was placed on the rational relationship between religious doctrine, natural law, and a personal divine providence. While evidence for this intrinsic relationship was to be located in different places - in the ideas already present in the mind, in the observations and experiments of the natural philosophers, and even in the history, present experience, and prophesied future of mankind - the result enabled and shaped the broader intellectual and scientific discourses of the Enlightenment.

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  • University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

    Robert Crocker

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