Inexcusabiles: Salvation and the Virtues of the Pagans in the Early Modern Period
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 ce...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Springer International Publishing
2020.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Springer eBooks.
International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées ; 229. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b43246126*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction
- Part 1. The Humanist Background
- 2. Montaigne's 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 Castellio's 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 Don't 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.
