Reedy, Gerard:
The Bible and Reason : Anglicans and Scripture in Late Seventeenth-Century England

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985. - [VII], 184 pp.

Mention of Spinoza: 2. The Argument from Internal Evidence: Herbert of Cherbury, Hobbes, Spinoza, Toland, and the Devines: 46-62 (25-26, 27-28, 29, 36, 40) ; Appendix 1 (s./v. Stillingfleet, Edward [1985]) ; ferner/further: 4, 5, 11, 15, 68, 77, 78, 6, 99, 105, 139, 143, 165n, 166n, 168n, 172n, 175n

Literature type: Monographs
Language: English
Thematic areas: Theology / biblical hermeneutics / philosophy of religion, Reception history
Subject: TTP

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English commentary: Comparision of the role of reason in biblical hermeneutis with a number of anglican devines with that in Spinoza: "As I have shown, the devines' concept of of reason and their scholarship were not as finely honed as those of Spinoza." (p. 143)

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