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"Irena Backus offers the first examination of Leibniz as both scholar and theologian in more than four hundred years, illuminating the relationship between metaphysics and theology in Leibniz's handling of key theological issues of his time: predestination, sacred history, the Eucharist, a...

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Main Author: Backus, Irena, 1950- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, > Freiherr von, > 1646-1716.
Philosophy and religion > History > 17th century.
Philosophy and religion > History > 18th century.
Theology > History > 17th century.
Theology > History > 18th century.
Philosophy, German > 17th century.
Philosophy, German > 18th century.
RELIGION > Christian Theology > History.
RELIGION > Christianity > History.
RELIGION > Christianity > Protestant.
Philosophy and religion.
Theology.
1600-1799
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Transubstantiation and the problem of real presence
  • Negotiations with the reformed and the problem of real presence
  • Predestination
  • Necessity
  • Leibniz and Augustine
  • Leibniz's concept of Historia sacra
  • 7. History, apocalyptic Prophecy, early heresies : Leibniz, Newton, Grotius.