At the origins of modern atheism /

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Author / Creator: Buckley, Michael J.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1987.
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Table of Contents:
  • Religion as bankrupt: Catholic theologians and the origins of modern atheism.
  • The existence of God and the new philosophic consciousness: 1, God as the pledge of a universal mathematics: Rene Descartes; 2, God in the discourse of a universal mechanics: Isaac Newton.
  • The assimilation of theology into the new philosophic consciousness: 1, The mystical theology of controversy: Nicholas Malebranche; 2, The logistic theology from mechanics: Samuel Clarke.
  • The atheistic transformation of Denis Diderot.
  • Atheism as the system of nature: Baron Paul Henri d'Holbach.
  • The dialectical origins of Atheism.