Persistence of the Sacred in Modern Thought

Name: Persistence of the Sacred in Modern Thought
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ISBN: 9780268029067

ISBN-10: 0268029067

ISBN-13: 9780268029067

Edition: 2012

Authors: Chris L. Firestone, Nathan A. Jacobs

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InThe Persistence of the Sacred in Modern Thought,Chris L. Firestone, Nathan A. Jacobs, and thirteen other contributors examine the role of God in the thought of major European philosophers from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. The philosophers considered are, by and large, not orthodox theists; they are highly influential freethinkers, emancipated by an age no longer tethered to the authority of church and state. While acknowledging this fact, the contributors are united in arguing that this is only one side of a complex story. To redress the imbalance of attention to secularism among crucial modern thinkers and to consolidate a more theologically informed view of modernity, they…

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List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Publication date: 6/15/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English



Introduction




The Desecularization of Descartes




Law and Self-Preservation in Leviathan: On Misunderstanding Hobbes's Philosophy, 1650-1700




The Religious Spinoza




God and Design in the Thought of Robert Boyle




God in Locke's Philosophy




The Myth of the Clockwork Universe: Newton, Newtonianism, and the Enlightenment




Pierre Bayle: A "Complicated Protestant"




Leibniz and the Augustinian Tradition




Hume's Defense of True Religion




The Illegitimate Son: Kant and Theological Nonrealism




The Reception and Legacy of J. G. Fichte's Religionslehre




Metaphysical Realism and Epistemological Modesty in Schleiermacher's Method




Schelling's Turn to Scripture




Hegel and Secularization




Kierkegaard's Critique of Secular Reason



List of Contributors


Index