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The Philosophers and the Bible
The Debate on Sacred Scripture in Early Modern Thought
Series: - Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Volume: 333
The Bible is the crucible within which were forged many of the issues most vital to philosophy during the early modern age. Different conceptions of God, the world, and the human being have been constructed (or deconstructed) in relation to the various approaches and readings of the Holy Scriptures. This book explores several of the ways in which philosophers interpreted and made use of the Bible. It aims to provide a new perspective on the subject beyond the traditional opposition âfaith versus scienceâ and to reflect the philosophical ways in which the Sacred Scriptures were approached. Early modern philosophers can thus be seen to have transformed the traditional interpretation of the Bible and emphasized its universal moral message. In doing so, they forged new conceptions about nature, politics, and religion, claiming the freedom of thought and scientific inquiry that were to become the main features of modernity.
Contributors include Simonetta Bassi, Stefano Brogi, Claudio Buccolini, Simone DâAgostino, Antonella Del Prete, Diego Donna, Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero, Guido Giglioni, Franco Giudice, Sarah Hutton, Giovanni Licata, Ãdouard Mehl, Anna Lisa Schino, Luisa Simonutti, Pina Totaro, and Francesco Toto.
Contributors include Simonetta Bassi, Stefano Brogi, Claudio Buccolini, Simone DâAgostino, Antonella Del Prete, Diego Donna, Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero, Guido Giglioni, Franco Giudice, Sarah Hutton, Giovanni Licata, Ãdouard Mehl, Anna Lisa Schino, Luisa Simonutti, Pina Totaro, and Francesco Toto.
Antonella Del Prete is Associate Professor in History of Philosophy at the University of Tuscia. She is the author of Jean Terrasson, Traité de lâinfini créé (Paris: 2007) and Chemins du cartésianisme (Paris: 2017), and the co-author of Révolutions scientifiques et libertinage (Turnhout: 2000).
Anna Lisa Schino is Associate Professor in History of Philosophy at the âSapienzaâ University of Rome. Her research interests focus on «libertinage érudit», political paradigms and natural law theories in the 17th century. She is the author of Batailles libertines (Paris: 2020).
Pina Totaro is Senior Researcher at the Institute for the European Intellectual Lexicon and History of Ideas (ILIESI-CNR). She is the author of Quatre enquêtes sur Spinoza (Paris: 2021) and âInstrumenta mentisâ. Contributi al lessico filosofico di Spinoza (Florence: 2009), and the co-author of Spinoza, philosophe grammairien. Le Compendium grammatices linguae hebraeae (Paris: 2019) and Il sogno tra tarda antichità e età moderna (Rome: 2020).
Anna Lisa Schino is Associate Professor in History of Philosophy at the âSapienzaâ University of Rome. Her research interests focus on «libertinage érudit», political paradigms and natural law theories in the 17th century. She is the author of Batailles libertines (Paris: 2020).
Pina Totaro is Senior Researcher at the Institute for the European Intellectual Lexicon and History of Ideas (ILIESI-CNR). She is the author of Quatre enquêtes sur Spinoza (Paris: 2021) and âInstrumenta mentisâ. Contributi al lessico filosofico di Spinoza (Florence: 2009), and the co-author of Spinoza, philosophe grammairien. Le Compendium grammatices linguae hebraeae (Paris: 2019) and Il sogno tra tarda antichità e età moderna (Rome: 2020).
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
âAntonella Del Prete, Anna Lisa Schino and Pina Totaro
1 Images of Moses in the Renaissance
âSimonetta Bassi
2 More on Spinoza and the Authorship of the Pentateuch
âPina Totaro
3 Tommaso Campanella on the Bible
âOntology, Epistemology and Political Philosophy
âGuido Giglioni
4 Prophecy and the Prophetic Kingdom of God in the Hobbesian Analysis of the Holy Scriptures
âAnna Lisa Schino
5 Hermeneutics and Conflict
âSpinoza and the Downfall of Exegetical Interpretation
âDiego Donna
6 The Bible in the Philosophy of Anne Conway and Henry More
âSarah Hutton
7 âBetween Doubt and Knowledgeâ
âJohn Biddle and the English Unitarians in the Time of Locke
âLuisa Simonutti
8 Immorality and Intolerance in the Bible?
âNatural Ethicality and the Interpretation of Scripture in the Writings of Pierre Bayle
âStefano Brogi
9 Peace and Truth in Polemic: Pascalâs Pensées L974/S771
âSimone DâAgostino
10 An Association without Power?
âGift, Recognition, and Democracy in the Hobbesian Conception of Early Christian Communities
âFrancesco Toto
11 âThe Law Inscribed in the Mindâ
âOn the Meaning of a Biblical Image in Spinozaâs Theological-Political Treatise
âGiovanni Licata
12 Firmamentum
âLa querelle théologico-philologique du ciel étoilé, de Copernic à Kepler
âÃdouard Mehl
13 Lâexégèse du dernier Mersenne et le cartésianisme
âClaudio Buccolini
14 âAccommoder la Théologie à ma façon de philosopherâ
âDescartes and Dutch Cartesians Interpreting the Bible
âAntonella Del Prete
15 Wolff, Spinoza, and the Interpretation of Scripture
âMatteo Favaretti Camposampiero
16 Natural Philosophy and Scripture in Isaac Newtonâs Principia mathematica
âFranco Giudice
Index
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
âAntonella Del Prete, Anna Lisa Schino and Pina Totaro
part 1: Enquiring on Moses
1 Images of Moses in the Renaissance
âSimonetta Bassi
2 More on Spinoza and the Authorship of the Pentateuch
âPina Totaro
part 2: Prophetâs Witnessing
3 Tommaso Campanella on the Bible
âOntology, Epistemology and Political Philosophy
âGuido Giglioni
4 Prophecy and the Prophetic Kingdom of God in the Hobbesian Analysis of the Holy Scriptures
âAnna Lisa Schino
5 Hermeneutics and Conflict
âSpinoza and the Downfall of Exegetical Interpretation
âDiego Donna
part 3: Rational Theology and Natural Religion
6 The Bible in the Philosophy of Anne Conway and Henry More
âSarah Hutton
7 âBetween Doubt and Knowledgeâ
âJohn Biddle and the English Unitarians in the Time of Locke
âLuisa Simonutti
8 Immorality and Intolerance in the Bible?
âNatural Ethicality and the Interpretation of Scripture in the Writings of Pierre Bayle
âStefano Brogi
part 4: The Moral Message of the Bible
9 Peace and Truth in Polemic: Pascalâs Pensées L974/S771
âSimone DâAgostino
10 An Association without Power?
âGift, Recognition, and Democracy in the Hobbesian Conception of Early Christian Communities
âFrancesco Toto
11 âThe Law Inscribed in the Mindâ
âOn the Meaning of a Biblical Image in Spinozaâs Theological-Political Treatise
âGiovanni Licata
part 5: The Accommodation Doctrine
12 Firmamentum
âLa querelle théologico-philologique du ciel étoilé, de Copernic à Kepler
âÃdouard Mehl
13 Lâexégèse du dernier Mersenne et le cartésianisme
âClaudio Buccolini
14 âAccommoder la Théologie à ma façon de philosopherâ
âDescartes and Dutch Cartesians Interpreting the Bible
âAntonella Del Prete
15 Wolff, Spinoza, and the Interpretation of Scripture
âMatteo Favaretti Camposampiero
16 Natural Philosophy and Scripture in Isaac Newtonâs Principia mathematica
âFranco Giudice
Index
All those interested in the Early Modern intellectual history, philosophy, theology, exegesis and the history of science. Keywords: history of philosophy, holy scripture, prophecy, rational theology, natural religion, exegetical interpretations, political philosophy, tolerance and intolerance, natural philosophy, history of science, reason and faith, political theology, libertas philosophandi, ethics, ethica, Renaissance, Renascimento, early modern philosophy.