An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of NatureUniversity of Toronto Press, 15. dets 1971 - 216 pages Composed in a period of religious and political upheaval, Culverwell's Discourse of the Light of Nature is an imaginative statement of the teachings of Christian humanism concerning the nature and limits of human reason and the related concepts of natural and divine law. The lengthy introduction to this new critical edition throws light on the evolution of English rationalism in the seventeenth century, and the annotation establishes for the first time the full range of Culverwell's sources – classical, medieval, and Renaissance – and enables the reader to appreciate his manner of citing authority and handling illustration. (Department of English Studies and Texts 17) |
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... minde and meaning of Antiquity to stop the progresse of Religion and Reason” (133). Read out of context and unqualified by opinions expressed elsewhere in the Discourse, these remarks endorse a degree and type of rationalism ...
... minde and meaning of Antiquity to stop the progresse of Religion and Reason” (133). Read out of context and unqualified by opinions expressed elsewhere in the Discourse, these remarks endorse a degree and type of rationalism ...
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... minde and command of the Supreme Law-giver; So as that all the strength and nerves, and binding virtue of this Law are rooted and fasten'd partly in the excellency and equity of the commands themselves, but they principally depend upon ...
... minde and command of the Supreme Law-giver; So as that all the strength and nerves, and binding virtue of this Law are rooted and fasten'd partly in the excellency and equity of the commands themselves, but they principally depend upon ...
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... minde and will, must needs be rational also; For in them his understanding and will met together, his truth and goodnesse kissed each other” (101). Culverwell finds new expression to illustrate “how rational is that Will of his” a few ...
... minde and will, must needs be rational also; For in them his understanding and will met together, his truth and goodnesse kissed each other” (101). Culverwell finds new expression to illustrate “how rational is that Will of his” a few ...
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... minde. Judge candidly, and take his opinion, as thou wouldst do his picture, sitting; not from a luxuriant expression (wherein he alwayes allowed for the shrinking) but from his declared judgement, when he speaks professedly of such a ...
... minde. Judge candidly, and take his opinion, as thou wouldst do his picture, sitting; not from a luxuriant expression (wherein he alwayes allowed for the shrinking) but from his declared judgement, when he speaks professedly of such a ...
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