The Crisis of Causality Voetius and Descartes on God, Nature and Change

The Crisis of Causality Voetius and Descartes on God, Nature and Change

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The Crisis of Causality deals with the reaction of the Dutch Calvinist theologian Gisbertus Voetius (1589-1676) to the New Philosophy of René Descartes (1596-1650). Voetius not only criticised the Cartesian idea of a mechanical Universe; he also foresaw that shifting conceptions of natural causalit...

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Main Author: van Ruler, Han (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Brill 1995
Subjects:
European history
Philosophy
History of ideas
History of science
c 1600 to c 1700
Aristotelian
Calvinist
cartesian
church history
Han van Ruler
history
ideas
intellectual
philosophy
scholastic
theology
Thomistic
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Summary:The Crisis of Causality deals with the reaction of the Dutch Calvinist theologian Gisbertus Voetius (1589-1676) to the New Philosophy of René Descartes (1596-1650). Voetius not only criticised the Cartesian idea of a mechanical Universe; he also foresaw that shifting conceptions of natural causality would make it impossible for theologians to explain the relationship between God and Creation in philosophical terms. This threatened the status of theology as a scientific discipline. Apart from a detailed analysis of the Scholastic and Cartesian notions of causality, the book offers new perspectives on related subjects, such as seventeenth-century university training and the Cartesian method of science. It will be of great importance to any student of seventeenth-century intellectual history, philosophy, theology and history of science.
ISBN:9789004247208
9789004103719
Access:Open Access

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