Book contents
- Participation in the Divine
- Cambridge Studies in Religion and Platonism
- Participation in the Divine
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The Lord Is One
- 2 The Place and Scope of Participation in the Divine in the Thought of Plato
- 3 Origen on Participation
- 4 Forms, Intellects, and Angels
- 5 Participation in the Divine in Gregory of Nyssa
- 6 Augustine’s “Illumination” Theory as the Natural Participation of the Human Mind
- 7 The Principle of Cosmic Unification in the Athenian School of Platonism
- 8 St. Maximus the Confessor on Participation
- 9 Participation in Medieval Platonism
- 10 Participation as God’s Indwelling
- 11 Some Late Medieval Discussions of Participation in the Divine
- 12 Music, Temperance, and Participation in Marsilio Ficino
- 13 Richard Hooker’s Metaphysics of Divine Participation
- 14 The Transcendence of Holiness
- 15 Ralph Cudworth on Causality and Substantial Forms
- 16 The Romantic Legacy
- 17 Participation Revived and Revised
- Index
- References
14 - The Transcendence of Holiness
Divine Goodness and Human Freedom in Henry More’s Critique of Baruch de Spinoza
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 November 2024
Book contents
- Participation in the Divine
- Cambridge Studies in Religion and Platonism
- Participation in the Divine
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The Lord Is One
- 2 The Place and Scope of Participation in the Divine in the Thought of Plato
- 3 Origen on Participation
- 4 Forms, Intellects, and Angels
- 5 Participation in the Divine in Gregory of Nyssa
- 6 Augustine’s “Illumination” Theory as the Natural Participation of the Human Mind
- 7 The Principle of Cosmic Unification in the Athenian School of Platonism
- 8 St. Maximus the Confessor on Participation
- 9 Participation in Medieval Platonism
- 10 Participation as God’s Indwelling
- 11 Some Late Medieval Discussions of Participation in the Divine
- 12 Music, Temperance, and Participation in Marsilio Ficino
- 13 Richard Hooker’s Metaphysics of Divine Participation
- 14 The Transcendence of Holiness
- 15 Ralph Cudworth on Causality and Substantial Forms
- 16 The Romantic Legacy
- 17 Participation Revived and Revised
- Index
- References
Summary
Henry More, the most speculatively gifted of the Cambridge Platonists, engaged critically with all the major thinkers of the early modern age. He provided an in-depth refutation of the materialist and determinist system of Thomas Hobbes, exposing its shortcomings with great argumentative vigor in his principal philosophical prose work of 1659 entitled The Immortality of the Soul. His critique of René Descartes, first outlined in his celebrated correspondence with the French rationalist in the late 1640s and culminating in his Enchiridium Metaphysicum of 1671, won him European fame and the sobriquet of the “Hammer of the Cartesians.”1 It was in the late 1670s, however, that he combated the most formidable of the early modern foes of his ancient theology of a supremely benign Deity watching over an animate cosmos inhabited by accountable rational agents: Baruch de Spinoza.2
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- Participation in the DivineA Philosophical History, From Antiquity to the Modern Era, pp. 303 - 327Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024
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