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Author Iliffe, Rob, author

Title Priest of nature : the religious worlds of Isaac Newton / Robert Iliffe
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]

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Contents Introduction: A rational Christian -- A divine web -- A spiritual ant -- Infinity and the imagination -- From liberty to heresy -- Abominable men -- Prisca Newtoniana -- Methodising the apocalypse -- Divine persecution -- The end of the world -- Private prosecutions -- Critical friends -- A particle of divinity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary Religion and faith dominated much of Newton's life and work. His papers, never made available to the public, were filled with biblical speculation and timelines along with passages that excoriated the early Church fathers. Indeed, his radical theological leanings rendered him a heretic, according to the doctrines of the Anglican Church
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727 -- Religion
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727
Newton, Isaac 1643-1727
RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Systematic.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
Religion
Religion
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199995363
0199995362