TY - BOOK AU - Wojcik,Jan W. TI - Robert Boyle and the limits of reason SN - 9780511573002 (ebook) AV - B1201.B44 W64 1997 U1 - 192 20 PY - 1997/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Boyle, Robert, KW - Reason KW - History KW - 17th century KW - Natural theology KW - History of doctrines KW - Philosophical theology KW - Theological anthropology KW - Christianity N1 - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015); 1; Things above Reason: Medieval Context and Concepts; Irenaeus and Clement of Alexandria; Thomas Aquinas; Double-truth and the Law of Noncontradiction; Lorenzo Valla; Two Approaches Summarized; Anglicans and Puritans --; 2; The Threat of Socinianism; The Protestant Background; Early Socinianism; The "Englishing" of Socnianism; Boyle's Response to Socinianism (c. 1652); Other Responses to Socinianism; Conclusions --; 3; Predestination Controversies; Arminians versus Calvinists; Doctrinal Issues; Boyle's Seraphic Love; Howe's Reconcileableness and Hammond's Pacifick Discourse --; 4; Theology and the Limits of Reason; Style of the Scriptures; Reconcileableness of Reason and Religion; Things above Reason; The Charge of Enthusiasm and Advices N2 - In this study of Robert Boyle's epistemology, Jan W. Wojcik reveals the theological context within which Boyle developed his views on reason's limits. After arguing that a correct interpretation of his views on 'things above reason' depends upon reading his works in the context of theological controversies in seventeenth-century England, Professor Wojcik details exactly how Boyle's three specific categories of things which transcend reason - the incomprehensible, the inexplicable, and the unsociable - affected his conception of what a natural philosopher could hope to know. Also covered in detail is Boyle's belief that God had deliberately limited the human intellect in order to reserve a full knowledge of both theology and natural philosophy for the afterlife UR - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511573002 ER -