"Essays ... originally presented at a four-day conference held at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles"--Pref. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Henry More, the Kabbalah, and the Quakers / Allison P. Coudert -- Edward Stillingfleet, Henry More, and the decline of Moses Atticus : a note on seventeenth-century Anglican apologetics / Sarah Hutton -- Latitudinarians, neoplatonists, and the ancient wisdom / Joseph M. Levine -- Cudworth, More, and the mechanical analogy / Alan Gabbey -- Cudworth and Hobbes on is and ought / Perez Zagorin -- Latitudinarianism and toleration : historical myth versus political history / Richard Ashcraft -- The intellectual sources of Robert Boyle's philosophy of nature : Gassendi's voluntarism, and Boyle's physicotheological project / Margaret J. Osler -- Latitudinarianism and the "ideology" of the early Royal Society : Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal Society (1667) reconsidered / Michael Hunter -- Locke and the latitude-men : ignorance as a ground of toleration / G.A.J. Rogers -- John Locke and latitudinarianism / John Marshall.
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