Firestone, Chris L. <br/><br/>
Persistence of the Sacred in Modern Thought. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (421 pages) 
<br/><br/>Cover -- Half title -- Title page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Desecularization of Descartes -- Chapter 2: Law and Self-Preservation in Leviathan -- Chapter 3: The Religious Spinoza -- Chapter 4: God and Design in the Thought of Robert Boyle -- Chapter 5: God in Locke's Philosophy -- Chapter 6: The Myth of the Clockwork Universe -- Chapter 7: Pierre Bayle -- Chapter 8: Leibniz and the Augustinian Tradition -- Chapter 9: Hume's Defense of True Religion -- Chapter 10: The Illegitimate Son -- Chapter 11: The Reception and Legacy of J.G. Fichte's Religionslehre -- Chapter 12: Metaphysical Realism and Epistemological Modesty in Schleiermacher's Method -- Chapter 13: Schelling's Turn to Scripture -- Chapter 14: Hegel and Secularization -- Chapter 15: Kierkegaard's Critique of Secular Reason -- Contributors -- Index. 
<br/><br/> Fifteen contributors examine the role of God in the thought of major European philosophers from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780268079741 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>God.<br/>Philosophy and religion.<br/>Philosophy, Modern.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BL473 .P46 2012 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>210