A Book Forged in Hell : : Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age / / Steven Nadler.
When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published--"godless," "full of abominations," "a book forged in hell . . . by the devil himself." Religious and secular authorities saw it as a t...
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