The philosophers and the Bible : the debate on sacred scripture in early modern thought / edited by Antonella Del Prete, Anna Lisa Schino, Pina Totaro.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Del Prete, Antonella, editor.

Schino, Anna Lisa, editor.

Totaro, Pina, editor.

Series:

Brill's studies in intellectual history ; 333.

Brill's studies in intellectual history ; 333

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--Philosophy.

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (317 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

Summary:

The Bible is the breeding ground for the issues nourishing philosophy during the Early Modern age. Different conceptions of God, the world, and the human being have been shaped based on the history of salvation, constructed (or deconstructed) in relation to the various approaches and readings of the Holy Scriptures. This book aims at inquiring the different uses that philosophers made of the Bible. The essays collected in it provide a new perspective on the subject, overcoming the traditional opposition "faith versus science" and enhancing the philosophical approach to the Sacred Scriptures. Philosophers thus promoted a universally recognized moral message and forged the conceptions of the nature, of politics, and of the human being proper to the Early Modern age. Contributors include Simonetta Bassi, Stefano Brogi, Claudio Buccolini, Simone D'Agostino, Antonella Del Prete, Diego Donna, Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero, Guido Giglioni, Franco Giudice, Sarah Hutton, Giovanni Licata, Édouard Mehl, Anna Lisa Schino, Luisa Simonutti, Pina Totaro, and Francesco Toto.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Part 1 Enquiring on Moses

Chapter 1 Images of Moses in the Renaissance

Chapter 2 More on Spinoza and the Authorship of the Pentateuch

Part 2 Prophet's Witnessing

Chapter 3 Tommaso Campanella on the Bible Ontology, Epistemology and Political Philosophy

Chapter 4 Prophecy and the Prophetic Kingdom of God in the Hobbesian Analysis of the Holy Scriptures

Chapter 5 Hermeneutics and Conflict Spinoza and the Downfall of Exegetical Interpretation

Part 3 Rational Theology and Natural Religion

Chapter 6 The Bible in the Philosophy of Anne Conway and Henry More

Chapter 7 "Between Doubt and Knowledge" John Biddle and the English Unitarians in the Time of Locke

Chapter 8 Immorality and Intolerance in the Bible? Natural Ethicality and the Interpretation of Scripture in the Writings of Pierre Bayle

Part 4 The Moral Message of the Bible

Chapter 9 Peace and Truth in Polemic: Pascal's Pensées L974/S771

Chapter 10 An Association without Power? Gift, Recognition, and Democracy in the Hobbesian Conception of Early Christian Communities

Chapter 11 "The Law Inscribed in the Mind" On the Meaning of a Biblical Image in Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise

Part 5 The Accommodation Doctrine

Chapter 12 Firmamentum La querelle théologico-philologique du ciel étoilé, de Copernic à Kepler

Chapter 13 L'exégèse du dernier Mersenne et le cartésianisme

Chapter 14 "Accommoder la Théologie à ma façon de philosopher" Descartes and Dutch Cartesians Interpreting the Bible

Chapter 15 Wolff, Spinoza, and the Interpretation of Scripture

Chapter 16 Natural Philosophy and Scripture in Isaac Newton's Principia mathematica

Index Nominum.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-47195-2

OCLC:

1289369766

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004471955 DOI