Newton and Religion: Context, Nature, and Influence (International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des ides Book 161)

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 revealed in his intellectual context. Front Matter....Pages i-xvii Alchemy and Eschatology: Exploring the Connections between John Dee and Isaac Newton....Pages 1-15 Newton and the Rosicrucian Enlightenment....Pages 17-43 From Paracelsus to Newton: The Word of God, the Book of Nature, and the Eclipse of the “Emblematic World View”....Pages 45-76 “Acceptable to inquisitive men”: Some Simonian Contexts for Newton’s Biblical Criticism, 1680–1692 1 ....Pages 77-96 Those “Whose Business It Is To Cavill”: Newton’s Anti-Catholicism....Pages 97-119 Newton, Corruption, and the Tradition of Universal History....Pages 121-143 Newton’s Of the Church : Its Contents and Implications....Pages 145-164 The Seven Trumpets and the Seven Vials: Apocalypticism and Christology in Newton’s Theological Writings....Pages 165-178 Interpretive Strategies in Newton’s Theologiae gentilis origines philosophiae ....Pages 179-202 Newton’s Apocalypse....Pages 203-220 Newton and the Guaranteeing God....Pages 221-235 Newton, the “Ancients,” and the “Moderns”....Pages 237-257 The Logic of Millennial Thought: Sir Isaac Newton Among His Contemporaries....Pages 259-289 Back Matter....Pages 291-333