Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of Nature The Re-enchantment of the World in the Age of Scientific Reasoning

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ISBN: 9780567226501 | 0567226506
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Copyright: 7/22/2010

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This volume aims to place Edwards's writings on natural philosophy in the broad historical, theological and scientific context of a wide variety of religious responses to the rise of modern science in the early modern period - John Donne's reaction to the new astronomical philosophy of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo, as well as to Francis Bacon's new natural philosophy; Blaise Pascal's response to Descartes' mechanical philosophy; the reactions to Newtonian science and finally Jonathan Edwards's response to the scientific culture and imagination of his time. Book jacket.

Acknowledgments	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
Philosophia ancilla theologiae: The Theological Origins of Jonadian Edwards's philosophy of Nature	p. 11
Philsophia ancilla theologiae	p. 14
Edwards's Typological and Emblematic View of the World of Nature	p. 17
The Great Chain of Being	p. 27
The God of Mechanical Philosophers	p. 30
The School of ôPhysico-theologyö	p. 36
Edwards and the School of Physico-theology	p. 43
The Rise of Modern Science and the Decline of Theology as the ôQueen of Sciencesö in the Early Modern Era	p. 51
Regina Scientiarum-Theology as the ôQueen of Sciencesö	p. 56
Copernicus-ôAstronomy is Written for Astronomersö	p. 59
Kepler-The New Physica Coelestis	p. 63
Galileo-The Book of Nature ôis Written in the Language of Mathematicsö	p. 73
ôAll Coherence Goneö-Donne and the ôNew Philosophyö	p. 86
The New Scientia Naturalis	p. 90
The New Science of Nature: Fears, Doubts, and Anxieties	p. 102
Donne and the ôNew Philosophyö	p. 107
ôDoubts and Anxietiesö: Ignatius His Conclave	p. 110
ôAll Coherence Goneö: The First Anniversarie	p. 118
ôGod of Abrahamö and ôNot of Philosophersö: Pascal against the Philosophers' Disenchantment of the World	p. 125
ôThe Eternal Silence of These Infinite Spaces Frightens Meö	p. 128
Pascal against the ôPhilosophersö	p. 133
ôThe God of Abrahamö and not ôthe God of Philosophersö	p. 145
The Theater of Nature: Natura Naturata and Natura Naturans	p. 153
Religion and the Newtonian Universe	p. 163
Newton and the Newtonians	p. 165
God ôVery Well Skilled in Mechanics and Geometryö	p. 172
Science's Disenchantment of the World and the Eighteenth-century Imagination	p. 178
Reaction to Newton and the Newtonians' ôSubversion and Ruin of Religionö	p. 181
John Edwards against the Newtonian ôNew Systems in Divinityö	p. 181
Robert Greene against Mechanical Philosophy's ôSubversion and Ruin of Religionö	p. 185
Leibniz against Newton's ôVery Odd Opinion Concerning the Work of Godö	p. 189
Swift, against the ôNew Systems of Natureö	p. 194
Blake's ôContempt & Abhorrenceö of Bacon, Locke, and Newton	p. 202
Jonathan Edwards and the ôAge of Enlightenmentö	p. 207
The Enlightened Age	p. 208
Deism	p. 211
Natural Philosophy	p. 216
History	p. 220
Ethics and Morals	p. 224
Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of Nature: The Re-enchantment of die World in the Age of Scientific Reasoning	p. 231
Edwards and the New Philosophy	p. 234
The Genesis of Edwards's Philosophy of Nature	p. 240
Mechanical Philosophy's Disenchantment of the World	p. 245
Atomic Doctrine	p. 248
The Laws of Nature	p. 254
God and the World	p. 259
The Nature of the Created Order	p. 263
Idealism	p. 266
Bibliography	p. 274
Index	p. 303
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Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of Nature The Re-enchantment of the World in the Age of Scientific Reasoning

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