Adam And Eve In Seventeenth Century Thought

Author : Philip C. Almond
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521660761
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adam and Eve in Seventeenth-Century Thought written by Philip C. Almond and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-04 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a fascinating account of the central myth of Western culture - the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Philip Almond examines the way in which the gaps, hints and illusions within this biblical story were filled out in seventeenth-century English thought. At this time, the Bible formed a fundamental basis for studies in all subjects, and influenced greatly the way that people understood the world. Drawing extensively on primary sources he covers subjects as diverse as theology, history, philosophy, botany, language, anthropology, geology, vegetarianism, and women. He demonstrates the way in which the story of Adam and Eve was the fulcrum around which moved lively discussions on topics such as the place and nature of Paradise, the date of creation, the nature of Adamic language, the origins of the American Indians, agrarian communism, and the necessity and meaning of love, labour and marriage.

Author : Julia Ipgrave
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317185587
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adam in Seventeenth Century Political Writing in England and New England written by Julia Ipgrave and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to contribute to a greater understanding of the religious foundations of seventeenth century political writing, this study offers a detailed exploration of the significance of the figure and story of Adam at that time. The book investigates seventeenth-century writings from England and New England-examining writings by Roger Williams and John Eliot, Gerrard Winstanley, John Milton, and John Locke-to explore the varying significance afforded to the Biblical figure of Adam in theories of the polity. In so doing, it counters over-simplified views of modern secular political thought breaking free from the confines of religion, by showing the diversity of political models and possibilities that Adamic theories supported. It provides contextual background for the appreciation of seventeenth-century culture and other cultural artefacts, and feeds into current scholarly interest in the relationship between religion and the public sphere, and in stories of origins and Creation.

Author : Julia Ipgrave
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317185595
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adam in Seventeenth Century Political Writing in England and New England written by Julia Ipgrave and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to contribute to a greater understanding of the religious foundations of seventeenth century political writing, this study offers a detailed exploration of the significance of the figure and story of Adam at that time. The book investigates seventeenth-century writings from England and New England-examining writings by Roger Williams and John Eliot, Gerrard Winstanley, John Milton, and John Locke-to explore the varying significance afforded to the Biblical figure of Adam in theories of the polity. In so doing, it counters over-simplified views of modern secular political thought breaking free from the confines of religion, by showing the diversity of political models and possibilities that Adamic theories supported. It provides contextual background for the appreciation of seventeenth-century culture and other cultural artefacts, and feeds into current scholarly interest in the relationship between religion and the public sphere, and in stories of origins and Creation.

Author : William VanDoodewaard
Publisher : Reformation Heritage Books
ISBN 13 : 1601783787
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quest for the Historical Adam written by William VanDoodewaard and published by Reformation Heritage Books. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was Adam really a historical person, and can we trust the biblical story of human origins? Or is the story of Eden simply a metaphor, leaving scientists the job to correctly reconstruct the truth of how humanity began? Although the church currently faces these pressing questions—exacerbated as they are by scientific and philosophical developments of our age—we must not think that they are completely new. In The Quest for the Historical Adam , William VanDoodewaard recovers and assesses the teaching of those who have gone before us, providing a historical survey of Genesis commentary on human origins from the patristic era to the present. Reacquainting the reader with a long line of theologians, exegetes, and thinkers, VanDoodewaard traces the roots, development, and, at times, disappearance of hermeneutical approaches and exegetical insights relevant to discussions on human origins. This survey not only informs us of how we came to this point in the conversation but also equips us to recognize the significance of the various alternatives on human origins. It also includes a foreword written by Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr. Table of Contents: 1. Finding Adam and His Origin in Scripture 2. The Patristic and Medieval Quest for Adam 3. Adam in the Reformation and Post-Reformation Eras 4. Adam in the Enlightenment Era 5. Adam in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 6. The Quest for Adam: From the 1950s to the Present 7. What Difference Does It Make? Epilogue: Literal Genesis and Science?

Author : Christopher Baker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313013608
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Absolutism and the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1720 written by Christopher Baker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-09-30 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book—the sixth volume in The Great Cultural Eras of the Western World series—provides information on more than 400 individuals who created and played a role in the era's intellectual and cultural activity. The book's focus is on cultural figures—those whose inventions and discoveries contributed to the scientific revolution, those whose line of reasoning contributed to secularism, groundbreaking artists like Rembrandt, lesser known painters, and contributors to art and music. As the momentum of the Renaissance peaked in 1600, the Western World was poised to move from the Early Modern to the Modern Era. The Thirty Years War ended in 1648 and religion was no longer a cause for military conflict. Europe grew more secularized. Organized scientific research led to groundbreaking discoveries, such as the earth's magnetic field, Kepler's first two laws of motion, and the slide rule. In the arts, Baroque painting, music, and literature evolved. A new Europe was emerging. This book is a useful basic reference for students and laymen, with entries specifically designed for ready reference.

Author : Keith Michael Baker
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442630248
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life Forms in the Thinking of the Long Eighteenth Century written by Keith Michael Baker and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life Forms in the Thinking of the Long Eighteenth Century is a unique reappraisal of Enlightenment thought on nature, biology, and the organic world.

Author : M. Suzuki
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230305504
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of British Women's Writing, 1610-1690 written by M. Suzuki and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-01-19 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the seventeenth century, in response to political and social upheavals such as the English Civil Wars, women produced writings in both manuscript and print. This volume represents recent scholarship that has uncovered new texts as well as introduced new paradigms to further our understanding of women's literary history during this period.

Author : Brian Cummings
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191665398
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mortal Thoughts written by Brian Cummings and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the nineteenth century it has been assumed that the concept of personal identity in the early modern period is bound up with secularization. Indeed, many explanations of the emergence of modernity have been based on this thesis, in which Shakespeare as a secular author has played a central role. However, the idea of secularization is now everywhere under threat. The secularity of modern society is less apparent than it was a generation ago. Shakespeare, too, has come to be seen in a religious perspective. What happens to human identity in this different framework? Mortal Thoughts asks what selfhood looks like if we do not assume that an idea of the self could only come into being as a result of an emptying out of a religious framework. It does so by examining human mortality. What it is to be human, and how a life is framed by its ending, are issues that cross religious confessions in early modernity, and interrogate the sacred and secular divide. A series of chapters examines literature and art in relation to concepts such as conscience, martyrdom, soliloquy, luck, suicide, and embodiment. Religious and philosophical creativity are revealed as poised around anxieties about finitude and contingency, challenging conventional divisions between kinds of literary and artistic endeavour. Mortal Thoughts considers incipient genres of life writing (More, Foxe, and Montaigne) and life drawing (Dürer, Hans Baldung Grien) in relation to dramatic representation and literary narration (Shakespeare, Donne, Milton). In the process it asks whether the problem of human identity rewrites historical boundaries.

Author : Kathleen M. Crowther
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521192366
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adam and Eve in the Protestant Reformation written by Kathleen M. Crowther and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-11 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the importance of stories about Adam and Eve in sixteenth-century German Lutheran areas.

Author : Erin Murphy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611490103
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Familial Forms written by Erin Murphy and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Familial Forms is the first full-length study to examine how literary writers engaged the politics of genealogy that helped define the "century of revolution." By demonstrating how conflicts over the family-state analogy intersected with the period's battles over succession, including: the ascent of James I, the execution of Charles I, disputes over the terms of the Interregnum government, the Restoration of Charles II, the Exclusion Crisis, the deposition of James II, the ascent of William and Mary, and Anne's failure to produce a surviving heir, this study provides a new map of the seventeenth-century politics of family in England. Beginning with a reconsideration of Jacobean patriarchalism, Familial Forms focuses on the work of John Milton,Lucy Hutchinson, John Dryden, and Mary Astell. From their contrasting political and gendered positions, these authors contemplated and contested the relevance of marriage and kinship to government. Their writing illuminates two crucial elements of England's conflicts. First, the formal qualities of poems and prose tracts reveal that not only was there a competition among different versions of the family-state analogy, but also a competition over its very status as an analogy. Second, through their negotiations of linear and nonlinear forms, Milton, Hutchinson, Dryden, and Astell demonstrate the centrality of temporality to the period's political battles. Through close textual analysis of poetry, political tracts, parliamentary records, and nonliterary genealogies, Familial Forms offers a fresh understanding of the seventeenth-century politics of genealogy. It also provides new answers to long-standing critical questions about the poetic form of canonical works, such as Paradise Lost and Absalom and Achitophel, and illuminates the political significance of newly-canonical works by women writers, including Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeoreum, Hutchinson's Order and Disorder, and Astell's A Serious Proposal to the Ladies.