That We May Join Earth & Heaven Book

This is an important 17th c. work by Anne Conway, an erudite disciple of the Cambridge Platonist Henry More, a devotee of a Christian interpretation of Kabbalism and Quaker, whose arguments (Contra Descartes, Hobbes, More and Spinoza) set the stage for modern thinking on the topic of theodicy. Her theory of atomism, drawing from ancient Greek sources through Kabbalism, sees matter and spirit not as separate realities, but on a spectrum. Her thinking on the material/spiritual world is fascinating and more complex that can be explained here (especially matter's infinitude), but it's worth noting that she anticipates many discoveries of modern chemistry and biology and philosophizes with a profound belief in the created reality of life and how the spirit and body cannot be separated, especially when thinking from a theological perspective. Areas worth exploring more: her thoughts on the Trinity, the role of the Holy Spirit, which is strangely absent, and her use of scripture to support her scientific arguments of atomism (f.e. Matthew 3:9, God is able to of these stones raise up children unto Abraham).