Radical Protestantism In Spinoza S Thought
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Radical Protestantism In Spinoza S Thought
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Author : Graeme Hunter
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-08
Radical Protestantism In Spinoza S Thought written by Graeme Hunter and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-08 with Religion categories.
Spinoza is praised as a father of atheism, a precursor of the Enlightenment, an 'anti-theologian' and a father of political liberalism. When the religious dimension of Spinoza's thought cannot be ignored, it is usually dismissed as some form of mysticism or pantheism. This book explores the positive references to Christianity presented throughout Spinoza's works, focusing particularly on the Tractatus Theologico-politicus. Arguing that advocates of the anti-Christian or un-Christian Spinoza fail to look beyond Spinoza's ethics, which has the least to say about Christianity, Graeme Hunter offers a fresh interpretation of Spinoza's most important works and his philosophical and religious thought. While there is no evidence that Spinoza became a Christian in any formal sense, Hunter argues that his aim was neither to be heretical nor atheistic, but rather to effect a radical reform of Christianity and a return to simple Biblical practices. This book presents a unique contribution to current debate for students and specialist scholars in philosophy of religion, the history of philosophy and early modern history.
Spinoza S Radical Cartesian Mind
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Author : Tammy Nyden-Bullock
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2010-07-15
Spinoza S Radical Cartesian Mind written by Tammy Nyden-Bullock and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-15 with Philosophy categories.
Seventeenth-century Holland was a culture divided. Orthodox Calvinists, loyal to both scholastic philosophy and the quasi-monarchical House of Orange, saw their world turned upside down with the sudden death of Prince William II and no heir to take his place. The Republicans seized this opportunity to create a decentralized government favourable to Holland's trading interests and committed to religious and philosophical tolerance. The now ruling regent class, freshly trained in the new philosophy of Descartes, used it as a weapon to fight against monarchical tendencies and theological orthodoxy. And so began a great pamphlet debate about Cartesianism and its political and religious consequences. This important new book begins by examining key Radical Cartesian pamphlets and Spinoza's role in a Radical Cartesian circle in Amsterdam, two topics rarely discussed in the English literature. Next, Nyden-Bullock examines Spinoza's political writings and argues that they should not be seen as political innovations so much as systemizations of the Radical Cartesian ideas already circulating in his time. The author goes on to reconstruct the development of Spinoza's thinking about the human mind, truth, error, and falsity and to explain how this development, particularly the innovation of parallelism - the lynchpin of his system - allowed Spinoza to provide philosophical foundations for Radical Cartesian political theory. She concludes that, contrary to general opinion, Spinoza's rejection of Cartesian epistemology involves much more than the metaphysical problems of dualism - it involves, ironically, Spinoza's attempt to make coherent a political theory bearing Descartes's name.
Spinoza S Christian Writings And Thinking
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Author : Aldo Di Giovanni
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-12-28
Spinoza S Christian Writings And Thinking written by Aldo Di Giovanni and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-28 with categories.
The assembling and study of a Corpus of Spinoza's Christian writing and thinking produces a paradigmatic shift in understanding Spinoza's life's purpose, and the intended purpose of his life's work.Spinoza undertook to correct the degeneration of the "old Religion", which Spinoza identifies as the Christian religion taught through the stories of Christ written in scripture. Much more importantly Spinoza recognized that the old Religion is actually present in the very nature of people inscribed in them by the spirit of Christ. Using that illumination he provides both a critique the deterioration of the old Religion and more significantly a method or way to rejuvenate the practice of Christian religion. Consequently, he became a veritable, rejected and offensive anathema of a 'voice crying in the wilderness', in Europe's 17th and 18th century post-reformation landscape of both Christian and Jewish establishment churches. Of people identified as radical Protestants, Spinoza it seems was the most sophisticated and most radical. Many of the radical Protestant movements retained or developed practices that over time became acceptable to the mainstream churches. This has yet to happen to Spinoza's work as a Christian philosopher and theologian of the radical Christian kind.This booklet is an exegesis of some specific critical texts from Spinoza's works that reference: the spirit of Christ, Christ according to the spirit, the mind of Christ, Christ, and rebirth or second birth. The texts are quoted in the main body of the article. Comments and other references are footnoted. The booklet is meant for study more so than for reading, therefore a copy of the texts without the comment is included.
Spinoza As Religious Philosopher
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
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Spinoza A Philosopher Of Love
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Author : Erik Dreff
language : en
Publisher: de Gruyter
Release Date : 2020-05
Spinoza A Philosopher Of Love written by Erik Dreff and has been published by de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05 with Religion categories.
Despite widespread agreement as to its importance, the concept of the Love of God in Spinoza continues to frustrate readers and scholars alike. Offering a radical re-reading of Spinoza's works and thought as first and foremost a philosophy of love, Spinoza: A Philosopher of Love expands and recasts my dissertation to present a comprehensive study of Spinoza's entire oeuvre with the love of God as a central if not cardinal concept and value for Spinoza. In turn, the book then re-examines his metaphysical, political, and religious projects, arguing for a reorientation of the present prioritization of propositions and concepts in his works, especially in light of the fundamental axiological role the concept plays. In the end, rather than being the stumbling block upon which certain concepts or interpretations of Spinoza fall, the love of God, it is argued, both undergirds and orients much if not all of his thought, and becomes the key to a more coherent understanding of crucial concepts, his thought, works, and philosophy as a whole.
Kant S Rational Religion And The Radical Enlightenment
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Author : Anna Tomaszewska
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-07-28
Kant S Rational Religion And The Radical Enlightenment written by Anna Tomaszewska and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-28 with Philosophy categories.
Kant's defence of religion and attempts to reconcile faith with reason position him as a moderate Enlightenment thinker in existing scholarship. Challenging this view and reconceptualising Kant's religion along rationalist lines, Anna Tomaszewska sheds light on its affinities with the ideas of the radical Enlightenment, originating in the work of Baruch Spinoza and understood as a critique of divine revelation. Distinguishing the epistemological, ethical and political aspects of such a critique, Tomaszewska shows how Kant's defence of religion consists of rationalizing its core tenets and establishing morality as the essence of religious faith. She aligns him with other early modern rationalists and German Spinozists and reveals the significance for contemporary political philosophy. Providing reasons for prioritizing freedom of thought, and hence religious criticism, over an unqualified freedom of belief, Kant's theology approximates the secularising tendency of the radical Enlightenment. Here is an understanding of how the shift towards a secular outlook in Western culture was shaped by attempts to rationalize rather than uproot Christianity.
Spinoza Logic Knowledge And Religion
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Author : Richard Mason
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-05
Spinoza Logic Knowledge And Religion written by Richard Mason and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-05 with Philosophy categories.
Approaching the central themes of Spinoza's thought from both a historical and analytical perspective, this book examines the logical-metaphysical core of Spinoza's philosophy, its epistemology and its ramifications for his much disputed attitude towards religion. Opening with a discussion of Spinoza's historical and philosophical location as the appropriate context for the interpretation of his work the book goes on to present a non-'logical' reading of Spinoza's metaphysics, a consideration of Spinoza's radical repudiation of Cartesian subjectivism and an examination of how Spinoza wanted religion to be understood in the context of his wider thinking and the influence of his non-Christian background. Mason also assesses Spinoza's significance and importance for philosophy now.
Spinoza And The Rise Of Historical Criticism Of The Bible
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Author : Travis L. Frampton
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2006-01-01
Spinoza And The Rise Of Historical Criticism Of The Bible written by Travis L. Frampton and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-01 with Religion categories.
Frampton reassesses Spinoza's relationship to higher criticism by drawing attention to the emergence of historical-critical investigations of the Bible from among heterodox Protestants during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Heterodoxy Spinozism And Free Thought In Early Eighteenth Century Europe
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Author : Silvia Berti
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-03-09
Heterodoxy Spinozism And Free Thought In Early Eighteenth Century Europe written by Silvia Berti and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-09 with Philosophy categories.
'the oldest biography of Spinoza', La Vie de Mr. Spinosa, which in the manuscript copies is often followed by L'Esprit de M. Spinosa. Margaret Jacob, in her Radical Enlightenment, contended that the Traite was written by a radical group of Freemasons in The Hague in the early eighteenth century. Silvia Berti has offered evidence it was written by Jan Vroesen. Various discussions in the early eighteenth century consider many possi ble authors from the Renaissance onwards to whom the work might be attributed. The Trois imposteurs has attracted quite a bit of recent attention as one of the most significant irreligious clandestine writings available in the Enlightenment, which is most important for understanding the develop ment of religious scepticism, radical deism, and even atheism in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Scholars for the last couple of decades have been trying to assess when the work was actually written or compiled and by whom. In view of the widespread distribution of manu scripts of the work all over Europe, they have also been seeking to find out who was influenced by the work, and what it represented for its time. Hitherto unknown manuscripts are being turned up in public and private libraries all over Europe and the United States.
Radicalism And Dissent In The World Of Protestant Reform
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Author : VolkswagenStiftung,
language : en
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Release Date : 2017-04-03
Radicalism And Dissent In The World Of Protestant Reform written by VolkswagenStiftung, and has been published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-03 with Religion categories.
This volume of essays explores the themes of radicalism and dissent within Protestantism. The comparisons highlight the contingent nature of particular settlements and narratives, and reveal the extent to which the definition of religious radicalism was dependent upon immediate context and show that radicalism and dissent were truly transnational phenomena. The historiography of the so-called radical reformation has been unduly shaped by the hostile categories imposed by mainstream or magisterial reformers during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This volume argues that scholars should adopt an open-ended understanding of evangelical reform, and recognize that the boundaries between radicalism and its opposite were not always firmly drawn. The distinction between the two is an inheritance of the Lutheran Reformation of the 1520s, which shaped not only the later course of the Reformation in the Holy Roman Empire but also attitudes towards and writings on religious dissent in the Netherlands and England. Radical critique is immanent within mainstream Protestantism, in a faith that emphasizes the power of the gospel with its unrelenting demands.