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The Enthusiastical Concerns of Dr. Henry More: Religious Meaning and the Psychology of Delusion

The Enthusiastical Concerns of Dr. Henry More: Religious Meaning and the Psychology of Delusion

Fouke, Daniel

Hardcover

General ChristianityGeneral European History

ISBN10: 9004106006
ISBN13: 9789004106000
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jan 1 1997
Pages: 258
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.52 Depth: 9.48
Language: English
This volume examines the role of the Cambridge Platonist, Henry More, in discrediting certain religious and philosophical movements of the seventeenth century by branding them as enthusiastical (the result of psychological imbalance issuing in impaired judgement and cognition).
More's views are distinguished from his enthusiastical opponents -- Alchemists, Quakers, and Mechanical Philosophers -- by looking at the way in which he dialectically employs various speech genres to describe religious meaning and to evoke in his readers attitudes and feelings confirming that meaning.
More is presented as offering a consistent ideal of the religiously meaningful life, protecting it from various forms of intellectual corruption. More's paradoxical ways of polemicizing are explained while at the same time the author provides insight into such diverse themes as the connection between Hermeticism, Cartesianism, and religious radicalism.

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