Spinoza and the Irrelevance of Biblical Authority - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spinoza and the Irrelevance of Biblical Authority write by J. Samuel Preus. This book was released on 2001-03-15. Spinoza and the Irrelevance of Biblical Authority available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise (1670) is a landmark both in democratic political theory and in the history of biblical interpretation. J. Samuel Preus highlights Spinoza's achievement by reading the Treatise in the context of a literary conflict among his contemporaries about biblical interpretation. Preus's exposition of neglected primary sources surrounding Spinoza's work offers new evidence regarding his rhetorical strategy and intent in the Treatise. The book provides not only a valuable contribution to Spinoza scholarship but an important account of the origins of modern methods of biblical interpretation.
Spinoza's Authority Volume II
Spinoza's Authority Volume II - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spinoza's Authority Volume II write by A. Kiarina Kordela. This book was released on 2017-12-28. Spinoza's Authority Volume II available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Spinoza's political thought has been subject to a significant revival of interest in recent years. As a response to difficult times, students and scholars have returned to this founding figure of modern philosophy as a means to help reinterpret and rethink the political present. Spinoza's Authority Volume II makes a significant contribution to this ongoing reception and utilization of Spinoza's 1670s Theologico-Political and Political treatises. By taking the concept of authority as an original framework, this books asks: How is authority related to law, memory, and conflict in Spinoza's political thought? What are the social, historical and representational processes that produce authority and resistance? And what are the conditions of effective resistance? Spinoza's Authority Volume II features a roster of internationally established theorists of Spinoza's work, and covers key elements of Spinoza's political philosophy.
Scriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age
Scriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Scriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age write by Henk Nellen. This book was released on 2017-09-29. Scriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Scriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age explores the hypothesis that in the long seventeenth century humanist-inspired biblical criticism contributed significantly to the decline of ecclesiastical truth claims. Historiography pictures this era as one in which the dominant position of religion and church began to show signs of erosion under the influence of vehement debates on the sacrosanct status of the Bible. Until quite recently, this gradual but decisive shift has been attributed to the rise of the sciences, in particular astronomy and physics. This authoritative volume looks at biblical criticism as an innovative force and as the outcome of developments in philology that had started much earlier than scientific experimentalism or the New Philosophy. Scholars began to situate the Bible in its historical context. The contributors show that even in the hands of pious, orthodox scholars philological research not only failed to solve all the textual problems that had surfaced, but even brought to light countless new incongruities. This supplied those who sought to play down the authority of the Bible with ammunition. The conviction that God's Word had been preserved as a pure and sacred source gave way to an awareness of a complicated transmission in a plurality of divergent, ambiguous, historically determined, and heavily corrupted texts. This shift took place primarily in the Dutch Protestant world of the seventeenth century.
Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise
Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise write by Theo Verbeek. This book was released on 2017-05-15. Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents the first accessible analysis of Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-politicus, situating the work in the context of Spinoza’s general philosophy and its 17th-century historical background. According to Spinoza it is impossible for a being to be infinitely perfect and to have a legislative will. This idea, demonstrated in the Ethics, is presupposed and further elaborated in the Tractatus Theologico-politicus. It implies not only that on the level of truth all revealed religion is false, but also that all authority is of human origin and that all obedience is rooted in a political structure. The consequences for authority as it is used in a religious context are explored: the authority of Scripture, the authority of particular interpretations of Scripture, and the authority of the Church. Verbeek also explores the work of two other philosophers of the period - Hobbes and Descartes - to highlight certain peculiarities of Spinoza's position, and to show the contrasts between their theories.
Spinoza and the Rise of Historical Criticism of the Bible
Spinoza and the Rise of Historical Criticism of the Bible - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spinoza and the Rise of Historical Criticism of the Bible write by Travis L. Frampton. This book was released on 2006-01-01. Spinoza and the Rise of Historical Criticism of the Bible available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Frampton reassesses Spinoza's relationship to higher criticism by drawing attention to the emergence of historical-critical investigations of the Bible from among heterodox Protestants during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
