Irena Backus

Leibniz

Protestant Theologian

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Produktbeschreibung

Irena Backus offers the first examination of Leibniz as both scholar and theologian in more than four hundred years, illuminating the relationship between metaphysics and theology in Leibniz's handling of key theological issues of his time: predestination, sacred history, the Eucharist, and efforts for a union between Lutherans and Catholics and between Lutherans and Calvinists.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 163mm x 160mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780199891849
• ISBN-10: 0199891842
• Artikelnr.: 40876851

Autorenporträt

Irena Backus is Professor of Reformation History and Ecclesiastical Latin at the Institute of Reformation History at the University of Geneva.

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. Eucharist and Substance
1. Transubstantiation and the Problem of Real Presence
2. Negotiations with the Reformed and the problem of real presence
Appendix to Chapter 2: A selection of texts on the negotiations
Part II. Predestination and Necessity
3. Predestination
4. Necessity
5. Leibniz and Augustine
Part III. Leibniz the Historian of the Sacred
6. Leibniz's Concept of Historia Sacra
7. History, Apocalyptic Prophecy, Early Heresies: Leibniz, Newton, Grotius
8. Concluding Remarks
Notes
Index