Newton and Religion

by Force, James E.; Popkin, Richard H.

• ISBN13: 9780792357445
• ISBN10: 0792357442
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

Over the past twenty-five years - since the very large collection of Newton's papers became available and began to be seriously examined - the beginnings of a new picture of Newton has emerged. This volume of essays builds upon the foundation of its authors in their previous works and extends and elaborates the emerging picture of the 'new' Newton, the great synthesizer of science and religion as revealed in his intellectual context.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
J. E. Force
Introduction	ix
R. H. Popkin
Alchemy and Eschatology: Exploring the Connections between John Dee and Isaac Newton	1	(16)
D. E. Harkness
Newton and the Rosicrucian Enlightenment	17	(28)
A. P. Coudert
From Paracelsus to Newton: The Word of God, the Book of Nature, and the Eclipse of the ``Emblematic World View''	45	(32)
J. J. Bono
``Acceptable to inquisitive men'': Some Simonian Contexts for Newton's Biblical Criticism, 1680-1692	77	(20)
J. A. I. Champion
Those ``Whose Business It Is To Cavill'': Newton's Anti-Catholicism	97	(24)
R. Iliffe
Newton, Corruption, and the Tradition of Universal History	121	(24)
R. Markley
Newton's Of the Church: Its Contents and Implications	145	(20)
M. Goldish
The Seven Trumpets and the Seven Vials: Apocalypticism and Christology in Newton's Theological Writings	165	(14)
S. Hutton
Interpretive Strategies in Newton's Theologiae gentilis origines philosophiae	179	(24)
K. J. Knoespel
Newton's Apocalypse	203	(18)
M. Murrin
Newton and the Guaranteeing God	221	(16)
G. A. J. Rogers
Newton, the ``Ancients,'' and the ``Moderns''	237	(22)
J. E. Force.
The Logic of Millennial Thought: Sir Isaac Newton Among His Contemporaries	259	(32)
R. Smolinski
Index	291