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Essays on the Context, Nature, and Influence of Isaac Newton's Theology (Hardcover, 1990 ed.)
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Essays on the Context, Nature, and Influence of Isaac Newton's Theology (Hardcover, 1990 ed.)
Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees, 129
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This collection of essays is the fruit of about fifteen years of
discussion and research by James Force and me. As I look back on
it, our interest and concern with Newton's theological ideas began
in 1975 at Washington University in St. Louis. James Force was a
graduate student in philosophy and I was a professor there. For a
few years before, I had been doing research and writing on
Millenarianism and Messianism in the 17th and 18th centuries,
touching occasionally on Newton. I had bought a copy of Newton's
Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of
St. John for a few pounds and, occasionally, read in it. In the
Spring of 1975 I was giving a graduate seminar on Millenarian and
Messianic ideas in the development of modem philosophy. Force was
in the seminar. One day he came very excitedly up to me and said he
wanted to write his dissertation on William Whiston. At that point
in history, the only thing that came to my mind about Whiston was
that he had published a, or the, standard translation of Josephus
(which I also happened to have in my library. ) Force told me about
the amazing views he had found in Whiston's notes on Josephus and
in some of the few writings he could find in St. Louis by, or
about, Whiston, who was Newton's successor as Lucasian Professor of
mathematics at Cambridge and who wrote inordinately on Millenarian
theology.
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