Abbreviations Introduction Recommended further reading Part I: The Catholic Demonstrations Part II: The Existence and Nature of God (a) The existence of God (b) The nature of God Part III: Reason and Faith Part IV: Ethics and Love of God Part V: Grace and Predestination Part VI: The Bible Part VII: Miracles and mysteries Part VIII: The churches and their doctrines Part IX: Sin, Evil, and Theodicy Part X: The Afterlife (a) Resurrection (b) Purgatory (c) Salvation and damnation Part XI: Non-Christian Religions Index
The first scholarly edition of Leibniz’s key writings on philosophical theology.
Lloyd Strickland is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy in the Department of History, Politics & Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He has published four books: Leibniz Reinterpreted (2006), Shorter Leibniz Texts (2006), Leibniz and the Two Sophies (2011), and Leibniz's Monadology (2014). He also runs a website which houses some of his Leibniz translations: http://www.leibniz-translations.com
A wonderful volume which is just as necessary as it is important.
Strickland has done a great service in meticulously and artfully
combining Leibniz’s complicated views about the major facets of his
beliefs concerning God and religion into one text ... The book is
recommended without the slightest bit of reservation. The text is
an invaluable source for not only scholars working on Leibniz and
early modern thought, but to philosophers of religion as well.
*International Journal for Philosophy of Religion*
A thoroughly eclectic selection of texts ... [Strickland] considers
the case of the resurrection of a man raised solely on human flesh
from infancy. Amidst increasing schism, pessimism and uncertainty,
the rediscovery of his [Leibniz’s] thought could not be
timelier.
*LSE Review of Books*
Lloyd Strickland has done students and teachers of Leibniz an
enormous service in producing this fine selection from Leibniz's
writings on philosophical theology, many of which appear in English
for the first time. It will surely become a standard reference
volume for many years to come. Whilst offering only a fraction of
Leibniz's output on these issues, Leibniz on God and Religion
serves to counter a tendency among some prominent Anglophone
scholars to represent Leibniz as a philosopher whose views emerged
primarily from his logical and/or scientific interests. In
contrast, Strickland's volume clearly demonstrates the ways in
which Leibniz's understanding of God and religion were at the very
heart of his philosophical project throughout his career.
*Paul Lodge, Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy, Mansfield College,
University of Oxford, UK*
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