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THAT MIRACLE OF THE CHRISTIAN WORLD - CHRISTIAN...

The present collection of essays is devoted to the Christian philosophy of the most prolific
and most speculatively ambitious of the Cambridge Origenists  Henry More. Not only did More
revere Origen  whom he extolled as a holy sage and that miracle of the Christian world  but he
also developed a philosophical system which hinged upon the Origenian notions of universal
divine goodness and libertarian human freedom. Throughout his life  More subscribed to the
ancient theology of the pre-existence of souls and took issue with the early modern
philosophies of Thomas Hobbes  René Descartes and Baruch de Spinoza. His vision of God's
goodness  experienced in his early school years at Eton  became the cornerstone of an Origenist
rationalism which envisaged an extended world animated by divine thought and inhabited by
self-moving rational agents. More's philosophy is the crowning attainment of the early modern
rediscovery of Origen as well as a neglected major rationalist system in its own right which
went on to exert decisive influence upon all subsequent western metaphysics. The essays
collected in the first part provide a detailed introduction to More's voluminous writings.
After a comprehensive general overview of his metaphysical and ethical system  the essays
expound More's historical context and his philosophical development from his early poetry in
the 1640s to his mature philosophical and theological prose works of the 50s  60s and 70s. In
addition  the reception of More and Origen in the later Cambridge Origenists and in Isaac
Newton is outlined. The second part contains several excerpts from More's influential Latin
works first translated into English by the editor.

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