{"product_id":"the-philosophers-and-the-bible-the-debate-on-sacred-scripture-in-early-modern-thought-9789004418639","title":"The Philosophers and the Bible: The Debate on Sacred Scripture in Early Modern Thought","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Bible is the crucible within which were forged many of the issues most vital to philosophy during the early modern age. Different conceptions of God, the world, and the human being have been constructed (or deconstructed) in relation to the various approaches and readings of the Holy Scriptures. This book explores several of the ways in which philosophers interpreted and made use of the Bible. It aims to provide a new perspective on the subject beyond the traditional opposition “faith versus science” and to reflect the philosophical ways in which the Sacred Scriptures were approached. Early modern philosophers can thus be seen to have transformed the traditional interpretation of the Bible and emphasized its universal moral message. In doing so, they forged new conceptions about nature, politics, and religion, claiming the freedom of thought and scientific inquiry that were to become the main features of modernity.    Contributors include Simonetta Bassi, Stefano Brogi, Claudio Buccolini, Simone D’Agostino, Antonella Del Prete, Diego Donna, Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero, Guido Giglioni, Franco Giudice, Sarah Hutton, Giovanni Licata, Édouard Mehl, Anna Lisa Schino, Luisa Simonutti, Pina Totaro, and Francesco Toto.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures  Notes on Contributors    Introduction   Antonella Del Prete, Anna Lisa Schino and Pina Totaro    part 1: Enquiring on Moses  1 Images of Moses in the Renaissance   Simonetta Bassi    2 More on Spinoza and the Authorship of the Pentateuch   Pina Totaro    part 2: Prophet’s Witnessing  3 Tommaso Campanella on the Bible   Ontology, Epistemology and Political Philosophy   Guido Giglioni    4 Prophecy and the Prophetic Kingdom of God in the Hobbesian Analysis of the Holy Scriptures   Anna Lisa Schino    5 Hermeneutics and Conflict   Spinoza and the Downfall of Exegetical Interpretation   Diego Donna    part 3: Rational Theology and Natural Religion  6 The Bible in the Philosophy of Anne Conway and Henry More   Sarah Hutton    7 “Between Doubt and Knowledge”   John Biddle and the English Unitarians in the Time of Locke   Luisa Simonutti    8 Immorality and Intolerance in the Bible?   Natural Ethicality and the Interpretation of Scripture in the Writings of Pierre Bayle   Stefano Brogi    part 4: The Moral Message of the Bible  9 Peace and Truth in Polemic: Pascal’s Pensées L974\/S771   Simone D’Agostino    10 An Association without Power?   Gift, Recognition, and Democracy in the Hobbesian Conception of Early Christian Communities   Francesco Toto    11 “The Law Inscribed in the Mind”   On the Meaning of a Biblical Image in Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise   Giovanni Licata    part 5: The Accommodation Doctrine  12 Firmamentum   La querelle théologico-philologique du ciel étoilé, de Copernic à Kepler   Édouard Mehl    13 L’exégèse du dernier Mersenne et le cartésianisme   Claudio Buccolini    14 “Accommoder la Théologie à ma façon de philosopher”   Descartes and Dutch Cartesians Interpreting the Bible   Antonella Del Prete    15 Wolff, Spinoza, and the Interpretation of Scripture   Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero    16 Natural Philosophy and Scripture in Isaac Newton’s Principia mathematica   Franco Giudice    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210789445975,"sku":"9789004418639","price":119.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-philosophers-and-the-bible-the-debate-on-sacred-scripture-in-early-modern-thought-9789004418639","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}