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The Bible played a significant role in the development of modern science. Most obviously, its...
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[Introduction]: Readers of the New Testament could be excused for thinking that there is little...
This article explores in some detail the historical circumstances of the emergence of the dual...
No one who is familiar with the literature of the early-modern period can be in...
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The importance of conceptions of natural law in early-modern debates about the legitimacy of colonization...
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While historians such as Charles Webster have alluded to the ways in which the myth...
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[Introduction] The notion that divine voluntarism played a central role in the development of the...
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‘I believe that the intellectual life of the whole of western society is increasingly being...
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[Introduction]: Curiosity is now widely regarded, with some justification, as a vital ingredient of the...
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[Extract]: "What we have said of miracles may be applied, without any variation, to prophecies;...
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[Extract] : In a short paper which appeared thirty years ago in the journal Science,...
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[Extract]: Discussions about animals - their purpose, their minds or souls, their interior operations, our...
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[Extract] In a recent Sophia article 'Harrison and Hick on God and Animal Pain', Joseph...
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Sir Isaac Newton, along with his most prominent disciples, William Whiston and Samuel Clarke, came...
Contributions to Books
One of the most far-reaching consequences of the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century was...
The aim is to explore the ways in which the Genesis narratives were understood in...
This chapter focuses on four distinct phases of the relationship between science and wisdom in...
No one who is familiar with the literature of the early-modern period can be in...
The Natural Philosopher and the Virtues, The Philosopher in Early Modern Europe: The Nature of a Contested Identity (2006)
Natural philosophers, engaged as they were in a branch of philosophy, were expected to conform...
