Book ID: CBB001251438

On Language, Theology, and Utopia (2010)

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Lodwick, Francis (Author)
Henderson, Felicity (Author)
Poole, William (Author)


Oxford University Press


Publication Date: 2010
Physical Details: xvi + 437 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

The book is divided into three parts. Part One includes A Common Writing (1647), the first English attempt at an artificial language, and the equally pioneering phonetic alphabet set out in An Essay Towards an Universal Alphabet (1686). Part Two contains a series of linked short treatises on the nature of religion and divine revelation, including 'Of the Word of God' and 'Of the Use of Reason in Religion', in which Lodwick argues for a new understanding of the Bible, advocates a rational approach to divine worship, and seeks to reinterpret received religion for an age of reason. The final part of the book contains his unpublished utopian fiction, A Country Not Named : here he creates a world in which he expresses his most firmly-held opinions on language and religion, and in which his utopians found a church that bans unedited reading from the Bible. The book gives new insights into the religious aspects of the scientific revolution and throws fresh light on the early modern frame of mind. It is aimed at intellectual and cultural historians, historians of science and linguistics, and literary scholars - indeed, at all those interested in the interplay of ideas, language, and religion in seventeenth-century England

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Description On three of Francis Lodwick's (1619--1694) publications that deal with the religious aspects of the scientific revolution.


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Review Hunter, Michael (2012) Review of "On Language, Theology, and Utopia". Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science (pp. 205-206). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Henry, John
Horst Steinke
Sacco, Francesco Giuseppe
Ricciardo, Salvatore
Wilkinson, Anouska
Wuidar, Laurence
Concepts
Natural philosophy
Science and religion
Religion
Astronomy
Historiography
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Early modern
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Renaissance
20th century
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England
Europe
Italy
Russia
Portugal
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Royal Society of London
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