From Puritanism to Platonism in Seventeenth Century England

The research of Professor J. D. Roberts has interested me for several years. It has interested me because he has been working in a really rich area of intellectual history. Even before Professor Whitehead taught us to speak of the seventeenth century as the "century of genius," many of us...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roberts, James Deotis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1968, 1968
Edition:1st ed. 1968
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • I. Benjamin Whichcote: A Man of Good-Nature
  • II. From Athens to Cambridge
  • III. Controversy with a Puritan
  • IV. Religion of First-Inscription — The Candle of the Lord (i)
  • V. Religion of First-Inscription — Natural Ethics (ii)
  • VI. Religion of after-Revelation—Saving Knowledge (i)
  • VII. Religion of after-Revelation — Christian Morals (ii)
  • VIII. Religion of after-Revelation — The Universal Church (iii)
  • IX. The Father of the Christian Platonists of Cambridge
  • X. Whichcote and the Intellectual Tradition
  • XI. Epilegomena
  • Selected Bibliography