The Intellectual Consequences of Religious Heterodoxy, 1600-1750
Edited by Sarah Mortimer, Christ Church, Oxford and John Robertson, University of Cambridge
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Biographical note
Sarah Mortimer (D.Phil., Oxford, History, 2007) is an Official Student and Tutor of Christ Church, Oxford, and a University Lecturer in History. She was formerly a Junior Research Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. She is the author of Reason and Religion in the English Revolution: the Challenge of Socinianism (Cambridge, 2010).
John Robertson (D.Phil. Oxford, History, 1981) is Professor of the History of Political Thought at the University of Cambridge, where he is a Fellow of Clare College. He was formerly a University Lecturer at Oxford, and Fellow of St Hugh's College. He is the author of The Case for the Enlightenment: Scotland and Naples 1680-1760 (Cambridge, 2005).
John Robertson (D.Phil. Oxford, History, 1981) is Professor of the History of Political Thought at the University of Cambridge, where he is a Fellow of Clare College. He was formerly a University Lecturer at Oxford, and Fellow of St Hugh's College. He is the author of The Case for the Enlightenment: Scotland and Naples 1680-1760 (Cambridge, 2005).
Readership
All those interested in early modern European intellectual history, particularly heterodox religious thought, political thought, natural philosophy, and the Enlightenment.
Table of contents
Preface
Notes on Contributors
1. Nature, Revelation, History: the intellectual consequences of religious heterodoxy 1600-1750, Sarah Mortimer and John Robertson
2. Styles of heterodoxy and intellectual achievement: Grotius and Arminianism, Hans Blom
3. Human and divine justice in the works of Grotius and the Socinians, Sarah Mortimer
4. ‘The Kingdom of Darkness’: Hobbes and heterodoxy, Justin Champion
5. Henry Stubbe, Robert Boyle and the idolatry of nature, Martin Mulsow
6. Heterodoxy and Sinology: Isaac Vossius, Robert Hooke and the early Royal Society’s use of Sinology, William Poole
7. ‘Lovers of Truth’ in Pierre Bayle’s and John Locke’s thought, S.-J. Savonius-Wroth
8. Spinoza and the religious radical Enlightenment, Jonathan Israel
9. Between orthodoxy and heterodoxy in Italian culture in the early 1700s: Giambattista Vico and Paolo Mattia Doria, Enrico Nuzzo
10. Conyers Middleton: the historical consequences of heterodoxy, Brian Young
11. David Hume’s Natural History of Religion (1757) and the end of modern Eusebianism, Richard Serjeantson
Bibliography
Index
Notes on Contributors
1. Nature, Revelation, History: the intellectual consequences of religious heterodoxy 1600-1750, Sarah Mortimer and John Robertson
2. Styles of heterodoxy and intellectual achievement: Grotius and Arminianism, Hans Blom
3. Human and divine justice in the works of Grotius and the Socinians, Sarah Mortimer
4. ‘The Kingdom of Darkness’: Hobbes and heterodoxy, Justin Champion
5. Henry Stubbe, Robert Boyle and the idolatry of nature, Martin Mulsow
6. Heterodoxy and Sinology: Isaac Vossius, Robert Hooke and the early Royal Society’s use of Sinology, William Poole
7. ‘Lovers of Truth’ in Pierre Bayle’s and John Locke’s thought, S.-J. Savonius-Wroth
8. Spinoza and the religious radical Enlightenment, Jonathan Israel
9. Between orthodoxy and heterodoxy in Italian culture in the early 1700s: Giambattista Vico and Paolo Mattia Doria, Enrico Nuzzo
10. Conyers Middleton: the historical consequences of heterodoxy, Brian Young
11. David Hume’s Natural History of Religion (1757) and the end of modern Eusebianism, Richard Serjeantson
Bibliography
Index
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