The persistence of the sacred in modern thought / edited by Chris L. Firestone and Nathan A. Jacobs.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Firestone, Chris L., 1957-

Jacobs, Nathan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

God.

Philosophy and religion.

Philosophy, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (422 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Fifteen contributors examine the role of God in the thought of major European philosophers from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century.

Contents:

Introduction / Chris L. Firestone and Nathan A. Jacobs

The desecularization of Descartes / John Cottingham

Law and self-preservation in 'Leviathan' : on misunderstanding Hobbes's philosophy, 1650-1700 / A. P. Martinich

The religious Spinoza / Philip Clayton

God and design in the thought of Robert Boyle / Richard A. Muller

God in Locke's philosophy / Nicholas Wolterstorff

The myth of the clockwork universe : Newton, Newtonianism, and the Enlightenment / Stephen D. Snobelen

Pierre Bayle : a "complicated Protestant" / Hubert Bost

Leibniz and the Augustinian tradition / Nathan A. Jacobs

Hume's defence of true religion / Lee Hardy

The illegitimate son : Kant and theological nonrealism / Chris L. Firestone

The reception and legacy of J. G. Fichte's 'Religionslehre' / Yolanda Estes

Metaphysical realism and epistemological modesty in Schleiermacher's method / Jacqueline Mariña

Schelling's turn to scripture / Nicholas Adams

Hegel and secularization / Peter C. Hodgson

Kierkegaard's critique of secular reason / Myron B. Penner.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780268079741

0268079749

OCLC:

796999284