Theology and science in the thought of Francis Bacon
By: by Steven Matthews.
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754662525
Subjects: Bacon, Francis, -- 1561-1626; Religion and science; Theology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Breaking with a Puritan past; title: A mother's concern; title: Turmoil and diversity in the English Reformation; title: The influences and the options available in English; title: Reformation theology; title: Intellectual trends : patristics and hebrew; title: Millennialism and the belief in a providential age; title: Bacon's break with the godly; title: Bacon's turn toward the ancient faith; title: The formative years; title: Bacon and Andrewes; title: The Meditationes sacrae and Bacon's turn away from calvinism; title: Bacon's confession of faith; title: In the beginning : the creation of nature and the nature of the fall the instauration as an event in sacred history; title: The ages of the world and the chain of causes; title: Creation as a pattern for human learning; title: Humanity in the garden; title: Knowledge and the fall; title: Knowledge as a support for the faith; title: Human effort as the key to recovery; title: On the way of salvation : Bacon's twofold via salutis; title: Bbacon and original sin; title: Patterns in divine action and prophecies of instauration; title: The instauration in the history of providence; title: Bacon's providential age; title: The conditions for instauration; title: In the autumn of the world : features of the age of instauration; title: Irenaeus and Francis Bacon on the golden age; title: Inaugurated eschatology in Bacon's instauration; title: Laborers in the fields of instauration : orders and offices; title: Rebuilding the temple of nature; title: Human agency and the instauration; title: The problem of confusing the two books; title: The possibility of immortality; title: Bacon's circle and his legacy; title: Bacon's literary circle; title: Tobie Matthew (1577-1655); title: William Rawley (1588-1667); title: Henry Wotton (15681639); title: Thomas Bushell (1594-1674); title: John Selden (1584-1654); title: George Herbert (1593-1633); title: Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679); title: Thomas Bodley (1545-1613); title: Conclusions regarding Bacon's literary circle; title: The reform of learning in the Civil War and the commonwealth the restoration and the Royal Society; title: The Enlightenment transformation of Bacon's memory.