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Richard Baxter and the Mechanical Philosophers (Hardcover)
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Richard Baxter and the Mechanical Philosophers (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Historical Theology
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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 to write 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, understood as
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.
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