The philosophers and the Bible : : the debate on sacred scripture in early modern thought / / edited by Antonella Del Prete, Anna Lisa Schino, Pina Totaro.

• Superior document: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; 333
• TeilnehmendeR: Del Prete, Antonella,; Schino, Anna Lisa,; Totaro, Pina,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; 333.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (317 pages)

The Bible is the breeding ground for the issues nourishing philosophy during the Early Modern age. Different conceptions of God, the world, and the human being have been shaped based on the history of salvation, constructed (or deconstructed) in relation to the various approaches and readings of the Holy Scriptures. This book aims at inquiring the different uses that philosophers made of the Bible. The essays collected in it provide a new perspective on the subject, overcoming the traditional opposition "faith versus science" and enhancing the philosophical approach to the Sacred Scriptures. Philosophers thus promoted a universally recognized moral message and forged the conceptions of the nature, of politics, and of the human being proper to the Early Modern age. 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.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1 Enquiring on Moses -- Chapter 1 Images of Moses in the Renaissance -- Chapter 2 More on Spinoza and the Authorship of the Pentateuch -- Part 2 Prophet's Witnessing -- Chapter 3 Tommaso Campanella on the Bible Ontology, Epistemology and Political Philosophy -- Chapter 4 Prophecy and the Prophetic Kingdom of God in the Hobbesian Analysis of the Holy Scriptures -- Chapter 5 Hermeneutics and Conflict Spinoza and the Downfall of Exegetical Interpretation -- Part 3 Rational Theology and Natural Religion -- Chapter 6 The Bible in the Philosophy of Anne Conway and Henry More -- Chapter 7 "Between Doubt and Knowledge" John Biddle and the English Unitarians in the Time of Locke -- Chapter 8 Immorality and Intolerance in the Bible? Natural Ethicality and the Interpretation of Scripture in the Writings of Pierre Bayle -- Part 4 The Moral Message of the Bible -- Chapter 9 Peace and Truth in Polemic: Pascal's Pensées L974/S771 -- Chapter 10 An Association without Power? Gift, Recognition, and Democracy in the Hobbesian Conception of Early Christian Communities -- Chapter 11 "The Law Inscribed in the Mind" On the Meaning of a Biblical Image in Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise -- Part 5 The Accommodation Doctrine -- Chapter 12 Firmamentum La querelle théologico-philologique du ciel étoilé, de Copernic à Kepler -- Chapter 13 L'exégèse du dernier Mersenne et le cartésianisme -- Chapter 14 "Accommoder la Théologie à ma façon de philosopher" Descartes and Dutch Cartesians Interpreting the Bible -- Chapter 15 Wolff, Spinoza, and the Interpretation of Scripture -- Chapter 16 Natural Philosophy and Scripture in Isaac Newton's Principia mathematica -- Index Nominum.