An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature

by Nathaniel Culverwell, Robert A. Greene (Editor)

Overview

An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature is a concerted effort at intellectual mediation in the deep religious dispute of the English civil war in the seventeenth century. On one side was the antinomian assertion of extreme Calvinists that the elect were redeemed by God’s free grace and thereby free from ordinary moral obligations. Opposite to that was the Arminian rejection of predestination and assertion that Christ died for all, not just for the elect.

Robert A. Greene is Professor of English at the Universityof Massachusetts at Boston.

Hugh MacCallum was Professor Emeritus of English at the Universityof Toronto.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780865973275
Publisher:	Liberty Fund, Incorporated
Publication date:	03/29/2002
Series:	Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics
Pages:	271
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Nathaniel Culverwell (1619-1651) was an English author and theologian, born in Middlesex. He was also a student and later a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Robert A. Greene was a member of the faculty of the University of Toronto as a professor of English at University College. Hugh R. MacCallum (1928-2008) was a professor emeritus of English at the University of Toronto, University College.

Editorial Reviews

The republication of this impressive edition will encourage the ongoing study of Culverwell as a significant figure at the genesis of modern ethical thought. The University of Toronto Press volume (1971) is republished here with all its principal features bar the editors’ original Introduction. In recent times, Messrs. Greene and MacCallum’s scholarly Introduction has been roundly praised for being balanced, informative, and useful.

Jacqueline Broad
Monash University
The Scriblerian
2005

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