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  • Essays on the Context, Nature, and Influence of Isaac Newton’s Theology

    Series Book 129 - International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
    This collection of essays is the fruit of about fifteen years of discussion and research by James Force and me. As I look back on it, our interest and concern with Newton's theological ideas began in 1975 at Washington University in St. Louis. James Force was a graduate student in philosophy and I was a professor there. For a few years before, I had been doing research and writing on ... Read more

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  • The Books of Nature and Scripture

    Recent Essays on Natural Philosophy, Theology and Biblical Criticism in the Netherlands of Spinoza’s Time and the British Isles of Newton’s Time

    Edited by J.E. Force, R.H. Popkin ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Dick Popkin and James Force have attended a number of recent conferences where it was apparent that much new and important research was being done in the fields of interpreting Newton's and Spinoza's contributions as biblical scholars and of the relationship between their biblical scholarship and other aspects of their particular philosophies.This collection represents the best current research in ... Read more

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  • Newton and Religion

    Context, Nature, and Influence

    Edited by J.E. Force, R.H. Popkin ...
    Series Book 161 - International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
    Over the past twenty-five years - since the very large collection of Newton's papers became available and began to be seriously examined - the beginnings of a new picture of Newton has emerged. This volume of essays builds upon the foundation of its authors in their previous works and extends and elaborates the emerging picture of the `new' Newton, the great synthesizer of science and religion as ... Read more

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  • Millenarianism and Messianism in Early Modern European Culture

    Volume III: The Millenarian Turn: Millenarian Contexts of Science, Politics and Everyday Anglo-American Life in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

    Edited by J.E. Force, R.H. Popkin ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Thanks to the work of legions of scholars, the millenarian expectations within large segments of the population in Cromwellian England have been carefully examined. The widespread belief that England, with its messianic leader 1 Cromwell, heralded the millennium is well known. Less well examined, perhaps, has been the cultural conceptions of the role of millenarian and messianic ideas in the "long ... Read more

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