Priest of Nature, The Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton by Iliffe, Rob -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover page Halftitle page Title page Copyright page Contents Acknowledgements Halftitle page Plates Introduction: A Rational Christian 1. A Divine Web

1. The Religious Locale 2. The Apothecary 3. Training in Piety 4. A Godly Boy

2. A Spiritual Ant

1. A Divided Trinity 2. The Triumph of the Old Gang 3. Godly Discipline 4. A Young Saint 5. Edge-Tools 6. Humane Learning 7. Disputing

3. Infinity and the Imagination

1. The Cartesian Influence 2. Some Philosophical Questions 3. Understanding Infinity 4. The Human and Divine Wills 5. Plastick Souls 6. Heightening the Imagination 7. Trepanning the Aether 8. In the Image of God

4. From Liberty to Heresy

1. The End of Liberty 2. Dispensation 3. Reading into Heresy 4. The Problem of Idolatry 5. The Logos 6. Hating the Homoousion 7. Moral Characters 8. Rewriting History

5. Abominable Men

Legends Vide Monks* 1. Corporate Cavillers 2. Anti-Catholic Prejudice 3. The Rise of the Monks 4. A Protestant Work Ethic 5. Monsters from the Id 6. Monastic Communities

6. Prisca Newtoniana

1. The New Philosophy and the Prisca 2. The Problem of Egypt 3. The Newtonian Prisca 4. Orphic and Pythagorean Truths 5. The Classical Scholia 6. Scientific Knowledge and Pagan Theology 7. The Religion of Stonehenge 8. Corruption 9. Reason and Restoration

7. Methodising the Apocalypse

1. The Apocalyptic Tradition 2. Joseph Mede and the Cambridge Tradition 3. Henry More’s Apocalypse 4. An Earnest Seeker of Truth 5. Rules, Words, and Language 6. Scripture and Nature 7. Logic and Image 8. The Great Apostasy 9. The Making of an Apocalyptic Whore 10. A Good Serious Man 11. Exegetical Impertinence

8. Divine Persecution

1. The Logic of Prophetic History 2. Mede’s World 3. The Lamb and the Seals 4. The Great Apostasy 5. The Trumpets 6. The Winds of Wrath 7. Just Torture 8. Creatures from the Pit 9. The Business of Interpretation

9. The End of the World

1. Out of the Closet 2. The Future State 3. Armageddon 4. Living at the End of the World 5. Dropping In

10. Private Prosecutions

1. Isaac Newton, Litigant 2. Witness Testimony 3. Philosophical Equity 4. Athanasius on Trial 5. Tyrian Convictions 6. Questions of Evidence 7. Legal Proceedings 8. Sincerity and Public Profession 9. A Litigious Lady 10. The Master of Testimonies 11. The Divided Self

11. Critical Friends

1. A Revolutionary Fellow 2. King’s and Locke 3. Trinitarian Debate 4. English Books 5. Learning and Caution 6. The Comma 7. The Rules of Criticism 8. Crafty Knaves 9. The Great Mystery of Godliness 10. A Friendship in Study

12. A Particle of Divinity

1. A Sad though Great Scholar 2. A Derangement of the Intellect 3. The Perfect Understanding

Notes

Introduction Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12

Bibliography Index

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