Title	Religion, Reason and Nature in Early Modern Europe [electronic resource] / edited by Robert Crocker
Imprint	Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2001
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9777-7
Descript	XX, 236 p. online resource

From a variety of perspectives, the essays presented here explore the profound interdependence of natural philosophy and rational religion in the ̀long seventeenth century' that begins with the burning of Bruno in 1600 and ends with the Enlightenment in the early Eighteenth century. From the writings of Grotius on natural law and natural religion, and the speculative, libertin novels of Cyrano de Bergerac, to the better-known works of Descartes, Malebranche, Cudworth, Leibniz, Boyle, Spinoza, Newton, and Locke, an increasing emphasis was placed on the rational relationship between religious doctrine, natural law, and a personal divine providence. While evidence for this intrinsic relationship was to be located in different places - in the ideas already present in the mind, in the observations and experiments of the natural philosophers, and even in the history, present experience, and prophesied future of mankind - the result enabled and shaped the broader intellectual and scientific discourses of the Enlightenment

The Regularization of Providence in Post-Cartesian Philosophy -- Grotius: Natural Law and Natural Religion -- The Paradoxes of Modernity: Rational Religion and Mythical Science in the Novels of Cyrano de Bergerac -- Ralph Cudworth, God, Mind and Nature -- Henry More and the Preexistence of the Soul -- Robert Boyle, The Christian Virtuosoโ and the Rhetoric of โReasonโ -- Spinoza and Boyle: Rational Religion and Natural Philosophy -- Nature, Man and God in the English Enlightenment -- Newtonโs Theocentric Cosmogony and Humeโs Cometary โSeedsโ -- The Image of Judaism in Seventeenth Century Europe -- Scaling the Ladder of Being: Theology and Early Theories of Evolution

1. Philosophy
2. Religion
3. History
4. Philosophy
5. History of Philosophy
6. Religious Studies
7. general
8. History
9. general