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Author(s): Rob Iliffe
ISBN(s): 9780199995356, 0199995354
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Year: 2014
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ISBN 10: 0199995354 
ISBN 13: 9780199995356
Author: Rob Iliffe

He was the dominant intellectual figure of his age. His published works, including the Principia Mathematica and Opticks, reached across the scientific spectrum, revealing the degree of his interdisciplinary genius. His renown opened doors throughout his career, securing him prestigious positions at Cambridge, the Royal Mint, and the Royal Society. Yet alongside his public success, Sir Isaac Newton harbored private religious convictions that set him at odds with established law and Anglican doctrine, and, if revealed, threatened not just his livelihood but his life. Religion and faith dominated much of Newton’s thought and his manuscripts, in various states of completion and numbering in the thousands of pages, are filled with biblical speculation and timelines, along with passages that excoriated the early Church Fathers. They make clear that his theological positions rendered him a heretic. Newton believed that the central concept of the Trinity was a diabolical fraud and loathed the idolatry, cruelty, and persecution that had come to characterize orthodox religion. Instead, he proposed as “simple Christianity”–a faith that would center on a few core beliefs and celebrate diversity in religious thinking and practice. An utterly original but obsessively private religious thinker, Newton composed some of the most daring works of any writer of the early modern period. Little wonder that he and his inheritors suppressed them, and that for centuries they were largely inaccessible.In Priest of Nature, historian Rob Iliffe introduces readers to Newton the religious animal, deepening our understanding of the relationship between faith and science at a formative moment in history and thought. Previous scholars and biographers have generally underestimated the range and complexity of Newton’s religious writings, but Iliffe shows how wide-ranging his observations and interests were, spanning the entirety of Christian history from Creation to the Apocalypse. Iliffe’s book allows readers to fully engage in the theological discussion that dominated Newton’s age. A vibrant biography of one of history’s towering scientific figures, Priest of Nature is the definitive work on the spiritual views of the man who fundamentally changed how we look at the universe.

Priest of nature The Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton 1st Table of contents:

1. A Divine Web
1. The Religious Locale
2. The Apothecary
3. Training in Piety
4. A Godly Boy
2. A Spiritual Ant
1. A Divided Trinity
2. The Triumph of the Old Gang
3. Godly Discipline
4. A Young Saint
5. Edge-Tools
6. Humane Learning
7. Disputing
3. Infinity and the Imagination
1. The Cartesian Influence
2. Some Philosophical Questions
3. Understanding Infinity
4. The Human and Divine Wills
5. Plastick Souls
6. Heightening the Imagination
7. Trepanning the Aether
8. In the Image of God
4. From Liberty to Heresy
1. The End of Liberty
2. Dispensation
3. Reading into Heresy
4. The Problem of Idolatry
5. The Logos
6. Hating the Homoousion
7. Moral Characters
8. Rewriting History
5. Abominable Men
Legends Vide Monks*
1. Corporate Cavillers
2. Anti-Catholic Prejudice
3. The Rise of the Monks
4. A Protestant Work Ethic
5. Monsters from the Id
6. Monastic Communities
6. Prisca Newtoniana
1. The New Philosophy and the Prisca
2. The Problem of Egypt
3. The Newtonian Prisca
4. Orphic and Pythagorean Truths
5. The Classical Scholia
6. Scientific Knowledge and Pagan Theology
7. The Religion of Stonehenge
8. Corruption
9. Reason and Restoration
7. Methodising the Apocalypse
1. The Apocalyptic Tradition
2. Joseph Mede and the Cambridge Tradition
3. Henry More’s Apocalypse
4. An Earnest Seeker of Truth
5. Rules, Words, and Language
6. Scripture and Nature
7. Logic and Image
8. The Great Apostasy
9. The Making of an Apocalyptic Whore
10. A Good Serious Man
11. Exegetical Impertinence
8. Divine Persecution
1. The Logic of Prophetic History
2. Mede’s World
3. The Lamb and the Seals
4. The Great Apostasy
5. The Trumpets
6. The Winds of Wrath
7. Just Torture
8. Creatures from the Pit
9. The Business of Interpretation
9. The End of the World
1. Out of the Closet
2. The Future State
3. Armageddon
4. Living at the End of the World
5. Dropping In
10. Private Prosecutions
1. Isaac Newton, Litigant
2. Witness Testimony
3. Philosophical Equity
4. Athanasius on Trial
5. Tyrian Convictions
6. Questions of Evidence
7. Legal Proceedings
8. Sincerity and Public Profession
9. A Litigious Lady
10. The Master of Testimonies
11. The Divided Self
11. Critical Friends
1. A Revolutionary Fellow
2. King’s and Locke
3. Trinitarian Debate
4. English Books
5. Learning and Caution
6. The Comma
7. The Rules of Criticism
8. Crafty Knaves
9. The Great Mystery of Godliness
10. A Friendship in Study
12. A Particle of Divinity
1. A Sad though Great Scholar
2. A Derangement of the Intellect
3. The Perfect Understanding

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