RT Article
T1 Religio medici – Thomas Browne’s Personal Creed = Religio medici – osobiste wyznanie wiary Thomasa Browne’a
JF Przegla̜d religioznawczy
IS 2/280
A1 Grzeliński, Adam ca. 20./21. Jh.
LA Polish
PB Polskie Towarzyrtwo Religioznawcze
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1851049835
AB In this article, I analyze one of the most interesting confessional works, Religio medici, by Thomas Browne (1642), English physician and thinker. This treatise, written in labyrinthine prose, full of apparent contradictions and paradoxes, is interesting not only as a literary work but also as a philosophical one. I discuss its content in the context of seventeenth-century England's religious and intellectual changes (doctrinal disputes, religious rationalization, the emergence of a new paradigm in the philosophy of nature). The existential interpretation of Religio medici presented in the article shows the coherence of the treatise and reveals the essence of Browne's religious attitude.
K1 Religio medici
K1 Thomas Browne
K1 Faith
K1 human individuality
K1 Reason
K1 religious creed