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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Foreword
I. Introduction
A. A Secular Theology
B. The Themes
C. A Differential History
D. Ideas and Ideals of Science
II. God’s Omnipresence, God’s Body, and Four Ideals of Science
A. The Body of God
B. The Original Setting of the Ideals
C. A Short History of God’s Corporeality and Presence
D. Late Medieval Nominalism and Renaissance Philosophy
E. Descartes and More
F. Hobbes, Spinoza, and Malebranche
G. Newton
H. Leibniz
III. Divine Omnipotence and Laws of Nature
A. Omnipotence and Nature
B. Potentia Dei Absoluta et Ordinata
C. Ideal Experiments and the Laws of Motion
D. Descartes, Eternal Truths, and Divine Omnipotence
E. Newton and Leibniz
IV. Divine Providence and the Course of History
A. The Invisible Hand and the Concept of History
B. “Scripture Speaks the Language of Man”: The Exegetical Principle of Accommodation
C. Accommodation and the Divine Law
D. Accommodation and the Course of Universal History
E. History, Counter-History, and Secularization
F. Vico’s Secularized Providence and His “New Science”
V. Divine and Human Knowledge: Knowing by Doing
A. A New Ideal of Knowing
B. Construction and Metabasis, Mathematization and Mechanization
C. The Construction of Nature and the Construction of Society
VI. Conclusion: From Secular Theology to the Enlightenment
A. Kant and the De-Theologization of Science
B. Enlightenment and Education
C. Theology and Science
Bibliography
Index
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