Treatise on Nature and Grace Hardback
by Nicolas Malebranche
Hardback
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Treatise on Nature and Grace by Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715), first published in 1680, is one of the most celebrated and controversial works of seventeenth-century philosophical theology. This major text, last translated into English in 1695, is here made available to a new generation of readers in an entirely new translation, with a substantial scholarly introduction.
The central argument, that God governs the realms of nature and of grace by simple, constant, and uniform `general wills', not through `particular providence', had fundamental repercussions within the contemporary debates on the nature of divine grace and of salvation, contradicting the claims of the Calvinists and Jansenists that God wills the individual salvation of an elected few.
Hailed as a work of genius by Bayle and Leibniz, the Treatise was to have a profound and far-reaching influence on the development of eighteenth-century thought through the theory of the just and justifiable `general will', which re-emerged in secular form in the work of Rousseau.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:244 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:01/10/1992
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- ISBN:9780198248323
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:244 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:01/10/1992
- Category:
- ISBN:9780198248323