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Record Nr.

UNINA9911134480003321

Autore

Zakai Avihu

Titolo

Jonathan Edwards' philosophy of nature : the re-enchantment of the world in the age of scientific reasoning / / Avihu Zakai

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : T and T Clark, , 2010

ISBN

9786612576782

9781472551238

1472551230

9781282576780

128257678X

9780567070951

0567070956

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (342 p.)

Collana

T & T Clark theology

Classificazione

02.01

Disciplina

261.55092

Soggetti

Philosophy of nature

Natural theology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-302) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter I: Philosophia ancilla theologiae: The Theological Origins of Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of Nature; Chapter II: The Rise of Modern Science and the Decline of Theology as the "Queen of Sciences" in the Early Modern Era; Chapter III: "All Coherence Gone"-Donne and the "New Philosophy"; Chapter IV: "God of Abraham" and "Not of Philosophers": Pascal against the Philosophers' Disenchantment of the World; Chapter V: Religion and the Newtonian Universe; Chapter VI: Jonathan Edwards and the "Age of Enlightenment"

Chapter VII: Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of Nature: The Re-enchantment of the World in the Age of Scientific Reasoning Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of Nature: The Re-Enchantment of the World in the Age of Scientific Reasoning analyses the works of Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) on natural philosophy in a series of contexts within which they may best be explored and understood. Its aim is to



place Edwards's writings on natural philosophy in the broad historical, theological and scientific context of a wide variety of religious responses to the rise of modern science in the early modern period John Donne's reaction to the new astronomical philosophy of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo, as well as to Francis Bacon's