Essays on the Context, Nature, and Influence of Isaac Newton's Theology
[Book]
by James E. Force, Richard H. Popkin.
Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1990
(240 pages).
Archives Internationales D'Histoire Des Idées/International Archives of the History of Ideas, 129.
1. Some Further Comments on Newton and Maimonides --;2. The Crisis of Polytheism and the Answers of Vossius, Cudworth, and Newton --;3. Polytheism, Deism, and Newton --;4. The Newtonians and Deism --;5. Newton's God of Dominion: The Unity of Newton's Theological, Scientific, and Political Thought --;6. Newton as a Bible Scholar --;7. Sir Isaac Newton, 'Gentleman of Wide Swallow'?: Newton and the Latitudinarians --;8. The Breakdown of the Newtonian Synthesis of Science and Religion: Hume, Newton, and the Royal Society --;9. Newton and Fundamentalism, II --;10. Hume's Interest in Newton and Science.
) Force told me about the amazing views he had found in Whiston's notes on Josephus and in some of the few writings he could find in St. Louis by, or about, Whiston, who was Newton's successor as Lucasian Professor of mathematics at Cambridge and who wrote inordinately on Millenarian theology.