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Spinoza's revelation : religion, democracy, and reason /

The early-modern philosopher Benedict de Spinoza was rejected by the Jewish community of his day, but his thought contains, and critiques, Jewish and Christian ideas. This re-interpretation foregrounds the concept of democracy, showing that Spinoza's theories of the Bible, religion, politics, a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Levene, Nancy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Vera religio
  • Superstition
  • The God of the philosophers
  • Spinoza's God
  • Man is God to man
  • Spinoza's Bible: concerning how it is that "scripture, insofar as it contains the word of God, has come down to us uncorrupted"
  • Why the Bible
  • Prophecy, or revelation
  • Interpretation
  • The Bible and the sacred
  • Politics, law, and the multitude
  • The politics of the multitude
  • Law
  • Obedience
  • Freedom
  • Reason, revelation, and the case of the Hebrews
  • The pacts
  • Election, divine and human
  • The love of God.