Religion, reason, and nature in early modern Europe
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.
Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, 180, v. 180
Conference papers and proceedings
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The Regularization of Providence in Post-Cartesian Philosophy.- Grotius: Natural Law and Natural Religion.- The Paradoxes of Modernity: Rational Religion and Mythical Science in the Novels of Cyrano de Bergerac.- Ralph Cudworth, God, Mind and Nature.- Henry More and the Preexistence of the Soul.- Robert Boyle, The Christian Virtuoso’ and the Rhetoric of ‘Reason’.- Spinoza and Boyle: Rational Religion and Natural Philosophy.- Nature, Man and God in the English Enlightenment.- Newton’s Theocentric Cosmogony and Hume’s Cometary ‘Seeds’.- The Image of Judaism in Seventeenth Century Europe.- Scaling the Ladder of Being: Theology and Early Theories of Evolution.
Chiefly rev. papers presented at a conference held in July 1992 in Adelaide, S. Aust