Religion, Reason and Nature in Early Modern Europe

Contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction. The Regularization of Providence in Post-Cartesian Philosophy; S. Brown. Grotius: Natural Law and Natural Religion; J. Lagrée. The Paradoxes of Modernity: Rational Religion and Mythical Science in the Novels of Cyrano de Bergerac; M. Sankey. Ralph Cudworth, God, Mind and Nature; S. Hutton. Henry More and the Pre-existence of the Soul; R. Crocker. Robert Boyle, `The Christian Virtuoso' and the Rhetoric of `Reason'; L. Mulligan. Spinoza and Boyle: Rational Religion and Natural Philosophy; L. Simonutti. Nature, Man and God in the English Enlightenment; G.A.J. Rogers. Newton's Theocentric Cosmogony and Hume's Cometary `Seeds'; J.E. Force. The Image of Judaism in Seventeenth Century Europe; R.H. Popkin. Scaling the Ladder of Being: Theology and Early Theories of Evolution; P. Harrison. Index.