The intellectual consequences of religious heterodoxy, c. 1600-1750
By: edited by Sarah Mortimer and John Robertson
Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history -- v. 211
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9789004221468
Subjects: Heresy; Intellectual life; History; Congresses; Church history
Description: "It is too often assumed that religious heterodoxy before the Enlightenment led inexorably to intellectual secularisation. Challenging this 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 the Scriptural basis of Revelation."--Back cover.
Notes: Proceedings of a conference held Mar. 14-15, 2008 at St. Hugh's College, Oxford.

Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.