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Authors: Richard Mason
ISBN-13: 9780521665858, ISBN-10: 052166585X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: July 1999
Edition: New Edition
Brings together Spinoza's philosophical thinking and his conclusions about God and religion.
Preface | ||
List of abbreviations | ||
Introduction: Spinoza's many contexts | 1 | |
Pt. I | The God of the Philosophers | |
1 | How God exists | 21 |
2 | How God acts | 51 |
3 | God and doubt | 85 |
Pt. II | The God of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob | |
4 | Final causes | 117 |
5 | Hope and fear | 132 |
6 | The meaning of revelation | 147 |
7 | History | 172 |
Pt. III | The God of Spinoza | |
8 | Choosing a religion | 187 |
9 | The figure of Christ | 208 |
10 | Understanding eternity | 224 |
11 | Why Spinoza? | 247 |
Bibliography | 261 | |
Index | 269 |