Sytsma David S. (Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Tokyo Christian University)
Sytsma David S. (Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Tokyo Christian University) - Richard Baxter And The Mechanical Philosophers - Hardcover
Sytsma David S. (Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Tokyo Christian University) - Richard Baxter And The Mechanical Philosophers - Hardcover
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Description: Richard Baxter one of the most famous Puritans of the seventeenth century is generally known as a writer of practical and devotional literature. But he also excelled in knowledge of medieval and early modern scholastic theology and was conversant with a wide variety of seventeenth - century philosophies. Baxter was among the early English polemicists to write against the mechanical philosophy of Ren Descartes and Pierre Gassendi in the years immediately following the establishment of the Royal Society. At the same time he was friends with Robert Boyle and Matthew Hale corresponded with Joseph Glanvill and engaged in philosophical controversy with Henry More. In this book David Sytsma presents a chronological and thematic account of Baxter's relation to the people and concepts involved in the rise of mechanical philosophy in late - seventeenth - century England. Drawing on largely unexamined works including Baxter's Methodus Theologiae Christianae (1681) and manuscript treatises and correspondence Sytsma discusses Baxter's response to mechanical philosophers on the nature of substance laws of motion the soul and ethics. Analysis of these topics is framed by a consideration of the growth of Christian Epicureanism in England Baxter's overall approach to reason and philosophy and his attempt to understand creation as an analogical reflection of God's power wisdom and goodness understood as vestigia Trinitatis. Baxter's views on reason analogical knowledge of God and vestigia Trinitatis draw on medieval precedents and directly inform a largely hostile though partially accommodating response to mechanical philosophy.
Title: Richard Baxter And The Mechanical Philosophers
Author(s): Sytsma David S. (Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Tokyo Christian University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780190274870
Pages: 354 Pages
Publication Date: 8/1/2017
Series: Oxford Studies in Historical Theology
Category: Christian Theology
Description: Richard Baxter one of the most famous Puritans of the seventeenth century is generally known as a writer of practical and devotional literature. But he also excelled in knowledge of medieval and early modern scholastic theology and was conversant with a wide variety of seventeenth - century philosophies. Baxter was among the early English polemicists to write against the mechanical philosophy of Ren Descartes and Pierre Gassendi in the years immediately following the establishment of the Royal Society. At the same time he was friends with Robert Boyle and Matthew Hale corresponded with Joseph Glanvill and engaged in philosophical controversy with Henry More. In this book David Sytsma presents a chronological and thematic account of Baxter's relation to the people and concepts involved in the rise of mechanical philosophy in late - seventeenth - century England. Drawing on largely unexamined works including Baxter's Methodus Theologiae Christianae (1681) and manuscript treatises and correspondence Sytsma discusses Baxter's response to mechanical philosophers on the nature of substance laws of motion the soul and ethics. Analysis of these topics is framed by a consideration of the growth of Christian Epicureanism in England Baxter's overall approach to reason and philosophy and his attempt to understand creation as an analogical reflection of God's power wisdom and goodness understood as vestigia Trinitatis. Baxter's views on reason analogical knowledge of God and vestigia Trinitatis draw on medieval precedents and directly inform a largely hostile though partially accommodating response to mechanical philosophy.
Title: Richard Baxter And The Mechanical Philosophers
Author(s): Sytsma David S. (Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Tokyo Christian University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780190274870
Pages: 354 Pages
Publication Date: 8/1/2017
Series: Oxford Studies in Historical Theology
Category: Christian Theology
