Inexcusabiles : salvation and the virtues of the Pagans in the early modern period / Alberto Frigo, editor.
Frigo, Alberto, 1982-
2020
BT751.3
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Title Inexcusabiles : salvation and the virtues of the Pagans in the early modern period / Alberto Frigo, editor.
ISBN 9783030400170 (electronic book)
3030400174 (electronic book)
9783030400163
Imprint Cham : Springer, 2020.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (233 pages)
Call Number BT751.3
Dewey Decimal Classification 202/.2
Summary This thought provoking book deals with religious scholarship and important controversies of the early modern period, specifically those relating to the question of the salvation of the pagans and the afterlife. From the Reformation, through the Renaissance and on to the seventeenth and eighteenth century, this was a time when religious scholarship was updated with the discoveries of the New World and colonial expansion. These chapters present new work, shedding light on the interplay of philosophy and theology in key thinkers such as Montaigne, Leibniz, Bayle and Spinoza, but also in less known authors such as Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola and Sebastian Castellio. Readers will discover analysis of the reshaping of specific theological issues, focussing on the reception of ancient philosophical traditions such as Platonism, Aristotelianism, Stoicism, Epicureanism, and scepticism. The authors investigate the relationship between the ethical models inspired by the heroes and philosophers of antiquity and the 'new philosophy. Above all, this book enables exploration of the ways in which discussions of the salvation and virtues of pagans intersected with the early modern reception of ancient philosophy, including a reassessment of the question of the moral status of unbelievers in the early modern period. Students and faculty working on early modern intellectual history will find that this book both inspires and enriches their knowledge. Those with an interest in Renaissance humanism, the history of early modern philosophy and science, in theology, or the history of religion will also appreciate the new contributions that it makes.
Note Includes index.
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Added Author Frigo, Alberto, 1982-
Series Archives internationales d'histoire des idées ; 229.
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1. Introduction
Part 1. The Humanist Background
2. Montaignes Gods
3. The Virtues of the Pagans between Prophecy and Rhetoric in the Work of Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola
4. Frenzied Sibyls and Most Venerable Prophets: Sebastian Castellios Struggle with the Biblical Canon and The Response within the Reformation Camp
Part II. The Theological Debate
5. The Problem of the Pagans and the Number of Elect
6. Gentiles in Court. From Superficial Idolatry to Implicit Faith: The Unveiling of Grace and Salvation in the Works of Paschal Rapine de Sainte-Marie (1655-1659)
7. Beatitude and the Scope of Grace: Early Modern Morals and the Paradoxes of Felicity
Part III. The Philosophers and the Unbelievers
8. Bayle and the Question of the Salvation of the Infidels
9. The Virtue of the Pagans and the Salvation of the Infidels in the Works of Fénelon
10. 'I Dont Know Why We Take so Much Pleasure in Thinking that People are Damned: Leibniz and the Question of the Salvation of Pagans
Part IV. The New Pagans
11. The Truth of the Matter: Observations on Inclusivism and Exclusivism
12. Jesuits and Chinese Atheism: Back and Forth between Europe and China.

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