The Cambridge Platonists and early modern philosophy : inventing the philosophy of religion /
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| Author / Creator: | Kaldas, Samuel, author. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024. ©2024 |
| Description: | xiv, 314 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cambridge studies in religion and Platonism Cambridge studies in religion and Platonism. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13560768 |
| Summary: | Often neglected by historians today, the seventeenth-century philosophers known as the Cambridge Platonists were recognised in their time as some of the most influential and controversial philosophers in England. Whereas most studies of the Cambridge Platonists have discussed their later careers, this book focuses on their early, formative years at Cambridge during the English Civil Wars. Samuel M. Kaldas explores how the Cambridge Platonists addressed issues central to philosophy of religion as we know it today through their engagement with early seventeenth-century religious controversies about predestination, the character and nature of God, and the role of reason in religion. His study serves as an accessible introduction to both the Cambridge Platonists, and to English religious controversies that contributed to the birth of the modern philosophy of religion. At the same time, Kaldas provides context for and fresh insights into the Cambridge Platonists' intellectual development and the coherence of their thought. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 314 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781009426916 1009426915 9781009426930 |
