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, and efforts for a union between Lutherans and Catholics and between Lutherans and Calvinists.
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, and efforts for a union between Lutherans and Catholics and between Lutherans and Calvinists.
Irena Backus is Professor of Reformation History and Ecclesiastical Latin at the Institute of Reformation History at the University of Geneva.
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Abbreviations Introduction Part I. Eucharist and Substance 1. Transubstantiation and the Problem of Real Presence 2. Negotiations with the Reformed and the problem of real presence Appendix to Chapter 2: A selection of texts on the negotiations Part II. Predestination and Necessity 3. Predestination 4. Necessity 5. Leibniz and Augustine Part III. Leibniz the Historian of the Sacred 6. Leibniz's Concept of Historia Sacra 7. History, Apocalyptic Prophecy, Early Heresies: Leibniz, Newton, Grotius 8. Concluding Remarks Notes Index
Abbreviations Introduction Part I. Eucharist and Substance 1. Transubstantiation and the Problem of Real Presence 2. Negotiations with the Reformed and the problem of real presence Appendix to Chapter 2: A selection of texts on the negotiations Part II. Predestination and Necessity 3. Predestination 4. Necessity 5. Leibniz and Augustine Part III. Leibniz the Historian of the Sacred 6. Leibniz's Concept of Historia Sacra 7. History, Apocalyptic Prophecy, Early Heresies: Leibniz, Newton, Grotius 8. Concluding Remarks Notes Index
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