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Preface | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | Things above Reason: Medieval Context and Concepts | 27 |
Irenaeus and Clement of Alexandria | 28 | |
Thomas Aquinas | 29 | |
Double-truth and the Law of Noncontradiction | 31 | |
Lorenzo Valla | 35 | |
Two Approaches Summarized | 36 | |
Anglicans and Puritans | 37 | |
2 | The Threat of Socinianism | 42 |
The Protestant Background | 42 | |
Early Socinianism | 43 | |
The "Englishing" of Socnianism | 47 | |
Boyle's Response to Socinianism (c. 1652) | 55 | |
Other Responses to Socinianism | 59 | |
Conclusions | 73 | |
3 | Predestination Controversies | 76 |
Arminians versus Calvinists | 77 | |
Doctrinal Issues | 79 | |
Boyle's Seraphic Love | 82 | |
Howe's Reconcileableness and Hammond's Pacifick Discourse | 85 | |
4 | Theology and the Limits of Reason | 95 |
Style of the Scriptures | 95 | |
Reconcileableness of Reason and Religion | 97 | |
Things above Reason | 100 | |
The Charge of Enthusiasm and Advices | 108 | |
Conclusions | 113 | |
5 | Philosophies of Nature and their Theological Implications | 121 |
The Aristotelians | 123 | |
The Cambridge Platonists | 126 | |
The "Chymical" Tradition | 129 | |
6 | Sources of Knowledge | 137 |
Scriptural Revelation | 137 | |
Personal Revelation | 141 | |
Abstract Reason and Innate Ideas | 144 | |
Sensory Perception | 146 | |
7 | The Limits of Reason and Knowledge of Nature | 151 |
The Incomprehensible, the Inexplicable, and the Unsociable | 152 | |
The Task of the Natural Philosopher | 161 | |
Evaluation of Alternative Theories of Matter | 168 | |
The Question of the Falsity of Rejected Hypotheses | 175 | |
The Question of the Truth of the Corpuscular Hypothesis | 179 | |
Advantages of the Corpuscular Hypothesis | 180 | |
Some Things not Explicable By any Means | 184 | |
The Question of Progress in Natural Philosophy | 186 | |
8 | Boyle's Voluntarism and the Limits of Reason | 189 |
The Seventeenth-Century Background | 190 | |
Specific Aspects of Boyle's Voluntarism | 200 | |
God's Will and Human Reason | 206 | |
The Christian Virtuoso's Final Reward | 210 | |
Conclusion | 212 | |
Bibliography | 220 | |
Index | 239 |
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