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Author:   Prof Avihu Zakai
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   T.& T.Clark Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.658kg
ISBN:  

9780567226501

ISBN 10:   0567226506
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   20 May 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

I. Philosophia ancilla theologiae: Science and Religion in Jonathan Edwards's Thought 1. philosophia ancilla theologiae 2. Edwards's Typological and Emblematic View of the World of Nature 3. The Great Chain of Being 4. The God of Mechanical Philosophers 5. The School of 'Physico-Theology' 6. Edwards and the School of Physico-Theology II. The Rise of Modern Science and the Decline of Theology as the 'Queen of Sciences' 1. Regina Scientiarum - theology as the 'Queen of Sciences' 2. Copernicus - 'Astronomy is written for astronomers' 3. Kepler - The new Physica Coelestis (Celestial Physics) 4. Galileo - The Book of Nature 'is written in the language of mathematics' III. 'All Coherence Gone' - Donne and the 'New Philosophy' of Nature 1. The New scientia naturalis 2. Science, Fears, Doubts and Anxieties 3. John Donne and the 'new Philosophy' a) 'Doubts and Anxieties': Ignatius His Conclave: b) 'All Coherence Gone': The First Anniversarie IV. 'God of Abraham' and 'not of philosophers': Pascal against the Philosophers' Disenchantment of the World 1. 'The Eternal Silence of These Infinite Spaces Frightens Me' 2. Pascal against the 'Philosophers' 3. 'The God of Abraham' and the 'God of Philosophers' 4. The Theatre of Nature: Natura naturata and natura naturans V. Religion and the Newtonian Universe Reactions to Newtonian science by Jonathan Swift, John Edwards, George Berkeley, William Blake, and others VI. Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of Nature: The Re-Enchantment of the World in the Age of Scientific Reasoning 1. The scientific Revolution's Disenchantment of the World 2. Atomic Doctrine 3. The Mechanization of the World of Nature 4. The Laws of Nature 5. God and the World 6. The Nature of the Created Order

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Reviewed by Don Schweitzer, St. Andrew's College, Saskatoon, Canada to appear in the Toronto Journal of Theology (Canada)'Zakai's study of Edwards in relation to the secularizing trends of early Western modernity offers an insightful and exemplary history of ideas in the early modern period that will be a 'must read' for all Edwards scholars.'--,

Reviewed by Don Schweitzer, St. Andrew's College, Saskatoon, Canada to appear in the Toronto Journal of Theology (Canada) 'Zakai's study of Edwards in relation to the secularizing trends of early Western modernity offers an insightful and exemplary history of ideas in the early modern period that will be a 'must read' for all Edwards scholars.'--Sanford Lakoff

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Avihu Zakai is Professor of early modern history and early American history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His fields of interest are Protestant religious history in both Europe and America in the early modern period, from the Protestant Reformation to the Great Awakening in America. In the past he published several books with, among others, Cambridge University Press and Princeton University Press.

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