The Intellectual Consequences of Religious Heterodoxy, 1600-1750

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-22146-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 211, 332 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 698 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

It is too often assumed that religious heterodoxy before the Enlightenment led inexorably to intellectual secularisation. Challenging that assumption, this book expands the scope of the enquiry, hitherto concentrated on the relation between heterodoxy and natural philosophy, to include political thought, moral philosophy and the writing of history. Individual chapters are devoted to Grotius, the Dutch Remonstrants and Socinianism, to Hobbes, Robert Boyle, Robert Hooke, Dutch Collegiants and English Unitarians, Giambattista Vico, Conyers Middleton, and David Hume. In their opening essay the editors argue that the critical problems for both Protestants and Catholics arose from destabilising the relation between the spheres of Nature and Revelation, and the adoption of an increasingly historical approach both to natural religion and to the Scriptual basis of Revelation.

Contributors include: Hans Blom, Justin Champion, Jonathan Israel, Martin Mulsow, Enrico Nuzzo, William Poole, Sami-Juhani Savonius, Richard Serjeantson, and Brian Young.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in early modern European intellectual history, particularly heterodox religious thought, political thought, natural philosophy, and the Enlightenment.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Mortimer, Sarah

Robertson, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 18. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Aufklärung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Notes on Contributors

1. Nature, Revelation, History: the intellectual consequences of religious heterodoxy 1600-1750, Sarah Mortimer and John Robertson

2. Styles of heterodoxy and intellectual achievement: Grotius and Arminianism, Hans Blom

3. Human and divine justice in the works of Grotius and the Socinians, Sarah Mortimer

4. ‘The Kingdom of Darkness’: Hobbes and heterodoxy, Justin Champion

5. Henry Stubbe, Robert Boyle and the idolatry of nature, Martin Mulsow

6. Heterodoxy and Sinology: Isaac Vossius, Robert Hooke and the early Royal Society’s use of Sinology, William Poole

7. ‘Lovers of Truth’ in Pierre Bayle’s and John Locke’s thought, S.-J. Savonius-Wroth

8. Spinoza and the religious radical Enlightenment, Jonathan Israel

9. Between orthodoxy and heterodoxy in Italian culture in the early 1700s: Giambattista Vico and Paolo Mattia Doria, Enrico Nuzzo

10. Conyers Middleton: the historical consequences of heterodoxy, Brian Young

11. David Hume’s Natural History of Religion (1757) and the end of modern Eusebianism, Richard Serjeantson

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Robertson, John
John Robertson (D.Phil. Oxford, History, 1981) is Professor of the History of Political Thought at the University of Cambridge, where he is a Fellow of Clare College. He was formerly a University Lecturer at Oxford, and Fellow of St Hugh's College. He is the author of The Case for the Enlightenment: Scotland and Naples 1680-1760 (Cambridge, 2005).

Mortimer, Sarah
Sarah Mortimer (D.Phil., Oxford, History, 2007) is an Official Student and Tutor of Christ Church, Oxford, and a University Lecturer in History. She was formerly a Junior Research Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. She is the author of Reason and Religion in the English Revolution: the Challenge of Socinianism (Cambridge, 2010).

Sarah Mortimer (D.Phil., Oxford, History, 2007) is an Official Student and Tutor of Christ Church, Oxford, and a University Lecturer in History. She was formerly a Junior Research Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. She is the author of Reason and Religion in the English Revolution: the Challenge of Socinianism (Cambridge, 2010).

John Robertson (D.Phil. Oxford, History, 1981) is Professor of the History of Political Thought at the University of Cambridge, where he is a Fellow of Clare College. He was formerly a University Lecturer at Oxford, and Fellow of St Hugh's College. He is the author of The Case for the Enlightenment: Scotland and Naples 1680-1760 (Cambridge, 2005).