Newton and Religion

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Alchemy and Eschatology: Exploring the Connections between John Dee and Isaac Newton

   • Deborah E. Harkness

   Pages 1-15

3. Newton and the Rosicrucian Enlightenment

   • Allison P. Coudert

   Pages 17-43

4. From Paracelsus to Newton: The Word of God, the Book of Nature, and the Eclipse of the “Emblematic World View”

   • James J. Bono

   Pages 45-76

5. “Acceptable to inquisitive men”: Some Simonian Contexts for Newton’s Biblical Criticism, 1680–16921

   • Justin A. I. Champion

   Pages 77-96

6. Those “Whose Business It Is To Cavill”: Newton’s Anti-Catholicism

   • Rob Iliffe

   Pages 97-119

7. Newton, Corruption, and the Tradition of Universal History

   • Robert Markley

   Pages 121-143

8. Newton’s Of the Church: Its Contents and Implications

   • Matt Goldish

   Pages 145-164

9. The Seven Trumpets and the Seven Vials: Apocalypticism and Christology in Newton’s Theological Writings

   • Sarah Hutton

   Pages 165-178

10. Interpretive Strategies in Newton’s Theologiae gentilis origines philosophiae

    • Kenneth J. Knoespel

    Pages 179-202

11. Newton’s Apocalypse

    • Michael Murrin

    Pages 203-220

12. Newton and the Guaranteeing God

    • G. A. J. Rogers

    Pages 221-235

13. Newton, the “Ancients,” and the “Moderns”

    • James E. Force

    Pages 237-257

14. The Logic of Millennial Thought: Sir Isaac Newton Among His Contemporaries

    • Reiner Smolinski

    Pages 259-289

15. Back Matter

    Pages 291-333

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Over the past twenty-five years - since the very large collection of Newton's papers became available and began to be seriously examined - the beginnings of a new picture of Newton has emerged. This volume of essays builds upon the foundation of its authors in their previous works and extends and elaborates the emerging picture of the `new' Newton, the great synthesizer of science and religion as revealed in his intellectual context.

• Isaac Newton
• John Dee
• apocalyptic
• biblical criticism
• enlightenment
• logic
• science

• University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA

  James E. Force

• Washington University and the University of California, Los Angeles, USA

  Richard H. Popkin

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