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Aliens and atheists: The Plurality of Worlds and Natural Theology in Seventeenth-Century England.

The plurality of worlds has had a long history in England, which has not gone unnoticed by scholars. Historians have tended to view this English pluralist tradition as similar to those found on the continent, and in doing so have failed to fully understand the religious significance that the plurality of worlds had on English thought and society. This religious significance is discovered through a thorough investigation of plurality as presented by English natural philosophers and theologians, and in so doing reveals much about England in the seventeenth century. As natural philosophers incorporated plurality within the larger framework of natural theology, it became a weapon of science and reason to be used against the unreasonable atheists of late seventeenth-century England.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc5134
Date12 1900
CreatorsOliver, Ryan
ContributorsMorris, Marilyn, Stern, Laura, Golden, Richard M.
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
FormatText
RightsPublic, Copyright, Oliver, Ryan, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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