The God of Spinoza : a philosophical study
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The God of Spinoza : a philosophical study
Cambridge University Press, 1997
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-268) and index
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This book is the fullest study in English for many years on the role of God in Spinoza's philosophy. Spinoza has been called both a 'God-intoxicated man' and an atheist, both a pioneer of secular Judaism and a bitter critic of religion. He was born a Jew but chose to live outside any religious community. He was deeply engaged both in traditional Hebrew learning and in contemporary physical science. He identified God with nature or substance: a theme which runs through his work, enabling him to naturalise religion but - equally important - to divinise nature. He emerges not as a rationalist precursor of the Enlightenment but as a thinker of the highest importance in his own right, both in philosophy and in religion.
Table of Contents
- Part I. The God of the Philosophers: 1. How God exists
- 2. How God acts
- 3. God and doubt
- Part II. The God of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob: 4. Final causes
- 5. Hope and fear
- 6. The meaning of revelation
- 7. History
- Part III. The God of Spinoza: 8. Choosing a religion
- 9. The figure of Christ
- 10. Understanding eternity
- 11. Why Spinoza?
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