RT Book
T1 The God of Spinoza: a philosophical study
A1 Mason, Richard
LA English
PP Cambridge
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 1997
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/883480964
AB This book is the fullest study in English for many years on the role of God in Spinoza's philosophy. Spinoza has been called both a 'God-intoxicated man' and an atheist, both a pioneer of secular Judaism and a bitter critic of religion. He was born a Jew but chose to live outside any religious community. He was deeply engaged both in traditional Hebrew learning and in contemporary physical science. He identified God with nature or substance: a theme which runs through his work, enabling him to naturalise religion but - equally important - to divinise nature. He emerges not as a rationalist precursor of the Enlightenment but as a thinker of the highest importance in his own right, both in philosophy and in religion.
NO Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
CN B3999.R4
SN 9780511583230
K1 Spinoza, Benedictus de : 1632-1677 : Religion
K1 Spinoza, Benedictus de
K1 God : History of doctrines, 17th century.
K1 Philosophical Theology
K1 God : History of doctrines : 17th century
K1 Spinoza, Benedictus de ; 1632-1677 ; Religion
K1 God ; History of doctrines ; 17th century
DO 10.1017/CBO9780511583230