An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature / Nathaniel Culverwell; Robert Greene, Hugh MacCallum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Culverwell, Nathaniel, author.

Contributor:

Greene, Robert.

MacCallum, Hugh.

Series:

Studies and texts (University of Toronto. Department of English) ; 17.

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion--Philosophy.

Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages) : illustrations, genealogical table.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Composed in a period of religious and political upheaval, Culverwell's "Discourse of the Light of Nature" is an imaginative statement of the teachings of Christian humanism concerning the nature and limits of human reason and the related concepts of natural and divine law. In it the scholasticism of the academy and the art of the preacher join hands to form an uneasy, although familiar, alliance. Elements from many Renaissance educational forms are recognizable: the sermon, the declamation, the disputation and determination, the commonplace, the treatise, all are represented. The lengthy introduction to this new critical edition throws light on the evolution of English rationalism in the seventeenth century, and the annotation establishes for the first time the full range of Culverwell's sources - classical, medieval, and Renaissance - and enables the reader to appreciate his manner of citing authority and handling illustration.

Contents:

Introduction ; Biography ; The Discourse and the context of religious controversy ; Culverwell and Bacon ; Voluntarism and innate ideas : Suarez, Herbert, Locke ; Culverwell and the Whichcote-Tuckney debate ; The form and argument of the Discourse ; The text

"An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature" ; The porch, or introduction

The explication of the words

What nature is

Of the nature of a law in general

Of the eternal law

Of the law of nature in general, its {nature/subject}

The extent of the law of nature

How the law of nature is discovered? not by tradition

The light of reason

Of the consent of nations

The light of reason is a derivative light

The light of reason is a diminutive light

The light of reason discovers present, not future things

The light of reason is a certain light

The light of reason is directive

The light of reason is calme and peaceable

The light of reason is a pleasant light

The light of reason is an ascendant light.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Jun 2017)

ISBN:

1-4426-5340-X

1-4426-3793-5

OCLC:

992454076