Origins of the Bible and Early Modern Political Thought

Origins of the Bible and Early Modern Political Thought

Revelation and the Boundaries of Scripture

DeCook, Travis

Cambridge University Press

03/2021

325

Dura

Inglês

9781108830812

15 a 20 dias

498

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Introduction: Eternal Word, Historical Artifact - Biblical Transcendence and Immanence in the Wake of Humanism and Reformation; 1. The Primordial Bible: William Tyndale's Social Vision and the Limits of Disenchantment; 2. The extrinsic Bible: scriptural revelation, secularity, and social organization in Francis Bacon's New Atlantis; 3. Scripture atomized: sovereignty, secularization, and the metaphysics of the Bible in Hobbe's Leviathan; 4. The trial of Scripture: John Milton, individual freedom, and the providential immanence of the Bible's textual history; 5. The religion of the state: Spinoza's reimagining of the Bibles origins and the interiorization of religion; Conclusion: the Bible and time.
Bible; early modern; Reformation; theology; political thought; philosophy; literature