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03654aam a2200433 i 4500 001 E3DCC2E8F11D11E79D0FC10F97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180104010254 008 170423s2017 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2016049617 020 $a 0190274875 (cloth) 020 $a 9780190274870 (cloth) 035 $a (OCoLC)990802534 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BDX $d OCLCF $d YDX $d YUS $d VA@ $d EYM $d VT2 $d COO $d ICW $d STF $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a B801 $b .S98 2017 082 00 $a 146/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Sytsma, David S., $e author. 245 10 $a Richard Baxter and the mechanical philosophers / $c David S. Sytsma. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2017] 300 $a xi, 338 pages ; $c 25 cm. 490 1 $a Oxford Studies In Historical Theology 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-331) and index. 505 0 $a Richard Baxter as Philosophical Theologian -- Baxter and the Rise of Mechanical Philosophy -- Reason and Philosophy -- A Trinitrian Natural Philosophy -- A Commotion over Motion -- The Incipient Materialism of Mechanical Philosophy -- From Epicurean Physics to Ethics. 520 $a Richard Baxter, one of the most famous Puritans of the seventeenth century, is generally known as a writer of practical and devotional literature. But he also excelled in knowledge of medieval and early modern scholastic theology, and was conversant with a wide variety of seventeenth-century philosophies. Baxter was among the early English polemicists who wrote against the mechanical philosophy of Rene Descartes and Pierre Gassendi in the years immediately following the establishment of the Royal Society. At the same time, he was friends with Robert Boyle and Matthew Hale, corresponded with Joseph Glanvill, and engaged in philosophical controversy with Henry More. In this book, David Sytsma presents a chronological and thematic account of Baxter's relation to the people and concepts involved in the rise of mechanical philosophy in late-seventeenth-century England. Drawing on largely unexamined works, including Baxter's Methodus Theologiae Christianae (1681) and manuscript treatises and correspondence, Sytsma discusses Baxter's response to mechanical philosophers on the nature of substance, laws of motion, the soul, and ethics. Analysis of these topics is framed by a consideration of the growth of Christian Epicureanism in England, Baxter's overall approach to reason and philosophy, and his attempt to understand creation as an analogical reflection of God's power, wisdom, and goodness, or vestigia Trinitatis. Baxter's views on reason, analogical knowledge of God, and vestigia Trinitatis draw on medieval precedents and directly inform a largely hostile, though partially accommodating, response to mechanical philosophy. 600 10 $a Baxter, Richard, $d 1615-1691. 600 17 $a Baxter, Richard, $d 1615-1691. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00001360 650 0 $a Philosophy, Modern $y 17th century. 650 0 $a Physics $x Philosophy. 650 0 $a Philosophical theology. 650 7 $a Philosophical theology. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01060773 650 7 $a Philosophy, Modern. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01061071 650 7 $a Physics $x Philosophy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01063079 648 7 $a 1600-1699 $2 fast 776 08 $i Online version: $a Sytsma, David S., author. $t Richard Baxter and the mechanical philosophers $d New York : Oxford University Press, 2017 $z 9780190274887 $w (DLC) 2017030112 830 0 $a Oxford studies in historical theology. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240320010709.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E3DCC2E8F11D11E79D0FC10F97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search