The Cambridge Platonists: A Brief Introduction by Tod E. Jones; with Eight Letters of Dr. Antony Tuckney and Dr. Benjamin Whichcote

by Tod E. Jones (Editor), Sara Elise Phang (Translator)

Overview

The Cambridge Platonists is written with students and novice theologians in mind. It provides context as well as description, while outlining the most representative ideas of the school with clarity and brevity. This introduction will meet the needs of many readers, but for those beginning a study of the works of the Cambridge Platonists, the Eight Letters of Dr. Antony Tuckney and Dr. Benjamin Whichcote not only provide a logical starting point, in that they present the most characteristic ideas of Whichcote—arguably, the Cambridge Platonists' founding member—but also help to clarify what sets this school of religious thought apart from contemporary Puritan theology, as represented by Tuckney. This is the first complete edition of the Eight Letters since their original publication in 1753, now rendered accessible to readers without knowledge of classical languages.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761828747
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/13/2005
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.41(d)

About the Author

Tod E. Jones is the author of The Broad Church: A Biography of a Movement (Lexington, 2003). He received his PhD in English from the University of Maryland, College Park, where he teaches as a Lecturer for the English Department and UM Libraries' User Education Services. Sara E. Phang received a B.A. in Classical Studies from Bryn Mawr College and a Ph.D. in Roman History from Columbia University. She held a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Classics at the University of Southern California in 2001-02.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Acknowledgments
Chapter 3 The Cambridge Platonists: A Brief Introduction: From Pre-Reformation to Pre-Restoration: The Social-Historical and Theological Context; Principle Persons and Representative Ideas; Reception; Notes
Chapter 4 Eight Letters of Dr. Antony Tuckney and Dr. Benjamin Whichcote: Editorial Notes and Abbreviations; Translator's Note; Title Page of the 1753 Edition; Preface by Samuel Salter; Letter I; Letter II; Letter III; Letter IV; Letter V; Letter VI; Letter VII; Le
Chapter 5 Bibliography
Chapter 6 Index
Chapter 7 About the Author

Editorial Reviews

The Cambridge Platonists provides an excellent introduction to an influential school of seventeenth-century thought. And the letters themselves are powerful examples of how two colleagues who disagreed over core issues of doctrine could still engage one another with civility and mutual respect.

Anglican and Episcopal History - W. M. Spellman

The Cambridge Platonists provides an excellent introduction to an influential school of seventeenth-century thought. And the letters themselves are powerful examples of how two colleagues who disagreed over core issues of doctrine could still engage one another with civility and mutual respect.

Anglican and Episcopal History - W.M. Spellman

The Cambridge Platonists provides an excellent introduction to an influential school of seventeenth-century thought. And the letters themselves are powerful examples of how two colleagues who disagreed over core issues of doctrine could still engage one another with civility and mutual respect.
— W.M. Spellman, University of North Carolina

Anglican and Episcopal History

The Cambridge Platonists provides an excellent introduction to an influential school of seventeenth-century thought. And the letters themselves are powerful examples of how two colleagues who disagreed over core issues of doctrine could still engage one another with civility and mutual respect.--W. M. Spellman, W.M. Spellman, University of North Carolina "Anglican and Episcopal History "

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