The Persistence of the Sacred in Modern Thought

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Contents Introduction 1  .  &  .  Chapter 1 The Desecularization of Descartes 15   Chapter 2 Law and Self-Preservation in Leviathan: 38 On Misunderstanding Hobbes’s Philosophy, 1650–1700 . .  Chapter 3 The Religious Spinoza 66   Chapter 4 God and Design in the Thought of Robert Boyle 87  .  Chapter 5 God in Locke’s Philosophy 112   Chapter 6 The Myth of the Clockwork Universe: 149 Newton, Newtonianism, and the Enlightenment  .  Chapter 7 Pierre Bayle: A “Complicated Protestant” 185   Chapter 8 Leibniz and the Augustinian Tradition 209  .  Chapter 9 Hume’s Defense of True Religion 251   Chapter 10 The Illegitimate Son: Kant and Theological 273 Nonrealism  .  Chapter 11 The Reception and Legacy of J.G. Fichte’s 300 Religionslehre   Chapter 12 Metaphysical Realism and Epistemological 319 Modesty in Schleiermacher’s Method   Chapter 13 Schelling’s Turn to Scripture 335   Chapter 14 Hegel and Secularization 352  .  Chapter 15 Kierkegaard’s Critique of Secular Reason 372  .  List of Contributors 392 Index 397 viii • Contents ...