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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
January 2010
Print publication year:
1997
Online ISBN:
9780511583230
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511583230
Subjects:
Religion, Early Modern Philosophy, Philosophy, Theology
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Book description

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.

Reviews

‘… a fine contribution to our understanding of those aspects of Spinoza’s thought.’

Steven Nadler Source: British Journal for the History of Philosophy

‘ … an important and stimulating book.’

Source: Philosophical Books

'This is a very good book … This brave new theology still needs to be heard. Armed with a copy of the Ethics and Mason's book, we can begin to hear it effectively.'

Source: Scottish Journal of Theology

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