This book is the fullest study in English for many years on the role of God in Spinoza's philosophy. Spinoza has been called both a 'God-intoxicated man' and an atheist, both a pioneer of secular Judaism and a bitter critic of religion. He was born a Jew but chose to live outside any religious community. He was deeply engaged both in traditional Hebrew learning and in contemporary physical science. He identified God with nature or substance: a theme which runs through his work, enabling him to naturalise religion but - equally important - to divinise nature. He emerges not as a rationalist precursor of the Enlightenment but as a thinker of the highest importance in his own right, both in philosophy and in religion.
| ISBN: | 9780521665858 |
| Publication date: | 1st July 1999 |
| Author: | Richard Wolfson College, Cambridge Mason |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 288 pages |
| Genres: |
Philosophical traditions and schools of thought Philosophy of religion |