Spinoza S Christian Writings And Thinking

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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 S Religion

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Author : Clare Carlisle
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2023-06-13

Spinoza S Religion written by Clare Carlisle and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-13 with Philosophy categories.

A bold reevaluation of Spinoza that reveals his powerful, inclusive vision of religion for the modern age Spinoza is widely regarded as either a God-forsaking atheist or a God-intoxicated pantheist, but Clare Carlisle says that he was neither. In Spinoza’s Religion, she sets out a bold interpretation of Spinoza through a lucid new reading of his masterpiece, the Ethics. Putting the question of religion centre-stage but refusing to convert Spinozism to Christianity, Carlisle reveals that “being in God” unites Spinoza’s metaphysics and ethics. Spinoza’s Religion unfolds a powerful, inclusive philosophical vision for the modern age—one that is grounded in a profound questioning of how to live a joyful, fully human life. Like Spinoza himself, the Ethics doesn’t fit into any ready-made religious category. But Carlisle shows how it wrestles with the question of religion in strikingly original ways, responding both critically and constructively to the diverse, broadly Christian context in which Spinoza lived and worked. Philosophy itself, as Spinoza practiced it, became a spiritual endeavor that expressed his devotion to a truthful, virtuous way of life. Offering startling new insights into Spinoza’s famously enigmatic ideas about eternal life and the intellectual love of God, Carlisle uncovers a Spinozist religion that integrates self-knowledge, desire, practice, and embodied ethical life to reach toward our “highest happiness”—to rest in God. Seen through Carlisle’s eyes, the Ethics prompts us to rethink not only Spinoza but also religion itself.

Spinoza

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Author : Steven M. Nadler
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2001-04-23

Spinoza written by Steven M. Nadler and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-04-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Complete biography of Spinoza based on detailed archival research.

Spinoza S Religion

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Author : Clare Carlisle
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-09-07

Spinoza S Religion written by Clare Carlisle and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-07 with Philosophy categories.

A bold reevaluation of Spinoza that reveals his powerful, inclusive vision of religion for the modern age Spinoza is widely regarded as either a God-forsaking atheist or a God-intoxicated pantheist, but Clare Carlisle says that he was neither. In Spinoza’s Religion, she sets out a bold interpretation of Spinoza through a lucid new reading of his masterpiece, the Ethics. Putting the question of religion centre-stage but refusing to convert Spinozism to Christianity, Carlisle reveals that “being in God” unites Spinoza’s metaphysics and ethics. Spinoza’s Religion unfolds a powerful, inclusive philosophical vision for the modern age—one that is grounded in a profound questioning of how to live a joyful, fully human life. Like Spinoza himself, the Ethics doesn’t fit into any ready-made religious category. But Carlisle shows how it wrestles with the question of religion in strikingly original ways, responding both critically and constructively to the diverse, broadly Christian context in which Spinoza lived and worked. Philosophy itself, as Spinoza practiced it, became a spiritual endeavor that expressed his devotion to a truthful, virtuous way of life. Offering startling new insights into Spinoza’s famously enigmatic ideas about eternal life and the intellectual love of God, Carlisle uncovers a Spinozist religion that integrates self-knowledge, desire, practice, and embodied ethical life to reach toward our “highest happiness”—to rest in God. Seen through Carlisle’s eyes, the Ethics prompts us to rethink not only Spinoza but also religion itself.

Spinoza

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Author : Steven Nadler
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1999-03-13

Spinoza written by Steven Nadler and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-03-13 with Philosophy categories.

Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) was one of the most important philosophers of all time; he was also arguably the most radical and controversial. This was the first complete biography of Spinoza in any language and is based on detailed archival research. More than simply recounting the story of Spinoza's life, the book takes the reader right into the heart of Jewish Amsterdam in the seventeenth century and, with Spinoza's exile from Judaism, right into the midst of the tumultuous political, social, intellectual and religious world of the young Dutch Republic. Though the book will be an invaluable resource for philosophers, historians, and scholars of Jewish thought, it has been written for any member of the general reading public with a serious interest in philosophy, Jewish history, seventeenth-century European history, and the culture of the Dutch Golden Age. Spinoza: A Life has recently been awarded the Koret Jewish Book Award.

Spinoza S Revelation

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Author : Nancy K. Levene
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004-08-12

Spinoza S Revelation written by Nancy K. Levene and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-12 with Religion categories.

Nancy Levene reinterprets a major early modern philosopher, Benedict de Spinoza - a Jew who was rejected by the Jewish community of his day but whose thought contains, and critiques, both Jewish and Christian ideas. It foregrounds the connection of religion, democracy, and reason, showing that Spinoza's theories of the Bible, the theologico-political, and the philosophical all involve the concepts of equality and sovereignty. Professor Levene argues that Spinoza's concept of revelation is the key to this connection, and above all to Spinoza's view of human power. This is to shift the emphasis in Spinoza's thought from the language of amor Dei (love of God) to the language of libertas humana (human freedom) without losing either the dialectic of his most striking claim - that man is God to man - or the Jewish and Christian elements in his thought. Original and thoughtfully argued, this book offers fresh insights into Spinoza's thought.

Spinoza And Religion

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Author : Elmer Ellsworth Powell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1906

Spinoza And Religion written by Elmer Ellsworth Powell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1906 with Metaphysics categories.

Spinoza S Lament In The Wilderness

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Author : Aldo Di Giovanni
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-02-21

Spinoza S Lament In The Wilderness 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 2018-02-21 with categories.

"The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, for, "Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?"But we have the mind of Christ. (Paul's letter 1 Cor 2:15-16 NIV)" Hiding in plain view, Spinoza uses a robust and intellectually sustainable Christology to articulate our union with God and the effects of that union. He describes our knowledge of that union and its effects, as well as the means of our acquiring such knowledge. Such knowledge enables people to piously follow true plans of living based on their intuited conceptions formed in their union with God. More importantly, Spinoza shows how we substitute a "godly" essence for our ""earthly". This study shows that Spinoza picked up the mantle of Paul, and, in regards to the explication of the mind of Christ, furthered that project substantially. Spinoza's work is, if not the first and perhaps only, then the most substantive philosophical development of the role of the mind of Christ in Christian religion, since the writing of Paul's authenticated letters.This study considers Spinoza's critique of superstitious Imagination-knowledge based Christian thinking in light of Spinoza's Intellect-knowledge based Christian thinking. After considering Spinoza's lament of the largely abandoned "old Religion" found at the opening of Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, the study suggests some reasons why Spinoza's Christian writings and thinking have been neglected or rather mis-construed. Not the least of these reasons is that readers have failed to distinguish what Spinoza believed, in particular about the spirit of Christ, from what he could "Mathematically Demonstrate". The point is made that Spinoza's approach to religion involved more than biblical interpretation using historical and textual criticism. Pressured by the accelerating advancement of critical thinking, including the sciences, Christian theologies founded on Imagination-knowledge such as words, images and historical narratives, acquired through the body's interaction with other bodies are faltering. Spinoza offers an intellectually sustainable alternative.

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.

The Benedict De Spinoza Reader

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Author : Benedict de Spinoza
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2013-02-20

The Benedict De Spinoza Reader written by Benedict de Spinoza and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-20 with Philosophy categories.

Benedict de Spinoza's writings laid the groundwork for the 18th century Enlightenment and for modern Biblical criticism. By virtue of his magnum opus, the Ethics, Spinoza is considered one of Western philosophy's definitive ethicists. Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently, for the most part, very prone to credulity. The human mind is readily swayed this way or that in times of doubt, especially when hope and fear are struggling for the mastery, though usually it is boastful, over-confident, and vain. After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the objects of my fears contained in themselves anything either good or bad, except in so far as the mind is affected by them, I finally resolved to inquire whether there might be some real good having power to communicate itself, which would affect the mind singly, to the exclusion of all else: whether, in fact, there might be anything of which the discovery and attainment would enable me to enjoy continuous, supreme, and unending happiness. Spinoza was one of the great rationalists of 17th century philosophy. He helped lay the groundwork for the 18th century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism. His correspondence helps shed light on his ethical opinions and positions. Required reading for those who wish a deeper understanding of the writings of Benedict de Spinoza.