Theological Origins of Modernity

Clift on, Gervase, 216
cogito ergo sum, 40, 189, 196–97, 200–201,
233
Cohn, Norman, 296n5
Cold War, ix, 8, 10
Cole, John R., 178, 331n1, 331n6, 332n8,
332nn19–20, 333n23, 334n38, 334nn43–
44, 335n59
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 135
Colet, John, 93, 94, 95, 210
Coligny, Gaspard II de, 130
Colli, Giorgio, 298nn26–27, 358n41
Colonna family, 47, 48, 304n19
Columbus, Christopher, 5
Condemnation of 1277, 21, 79, 134, 299n4
Cooper, Barry, 351n137
Copernican Revolution, 167
Copernicus, Nicolaus, xi, 5, 83, 337n101
Corpus hermeticum, 82, 83
corruption in the church, 102–3; Boccacio
on, 102; Christian humanism and, 132,
227; Enlightenment secularization and,
271; Erasmus and, 96, 135; hierarchy
and, 131; Hobbes on, 214, 247, 252–53;
Luther and, 33, 106, 131, 135; Machiavelli
and, 90; Petrarch on, 49–50, 75, 102,
304n23; Savonarola and, 88. See also
indulgences
cosmology, contemporary, 358nn42–43
Council of Ferrara, 80–81
Council of Nicea, 20, 133
Council of Trent, 172
Counter-reformation: Aristotelianism of,
188, 190; beginning of, 172; Erasmus’s
project and, 167; Hermeticism and, 179;
Hobbes and, 208; Sorbonne and, 181
Courtenay, William, 299n5
Cowper, Samuel, 220
Craig, E., 361n3
Cranston, Maurice, 352n145
creationism, xii
Croce, Benedeto, 359n46
Crombie, A. C., 302n34
Cromwell, Oliver, 130, 213, 219, 343n49
Crusades, 15, 21, 29, 45, 69, 315n39
cunning of reason, 273, 282, 284
Curley, Edwin, 303n59, 341n3, 351n137,
352n146, 354n6
index 367
d’Alembert, Jean, 258, 275, 354n8
D’Amico, John F., 314n29, 315n31, 317n64
Damrosch, Leopold, 343n42, 343n45,
345n78, 352n144, 353n153
Daniel: prophecy in, 3, 296n3. See also four
empire theory
Dante: city of God and, 45; infi nite God of,
15; moderno used by, 3; Petrarch and,
46, 47, 52, 56, 69, 303n8; Socrates in
limbo of, 78
Dantine, Wilhelm, 114, 157
dark age, Petrarch on, 4, 79
Daston, Lorraine, 336n87
death of God, xi, 13, 227, 272, 273, 274. See
also secularization
Debus, Allen, 316n46
deduction: Aristotle on, 336n80; Descartes
on, 191. See also logic
Dee, John, 210, 341n18
De Grazia, Sebastian, 90, 317nn68–70,
318nn71–73, 318n76
deism, 182, 271
Deleuze, Gilles, 9, 359n47
democracy, 8–9, 39, 286, 298n21
Derrida, Jacques, 9, 359n47
Descartes, René, 170–206; Beeckman and,
170, 171, 174–75, 176, 177, 178, 183, 223,
332n20, 333n25; Bérulle and, 182–83,
335n56; certainty and, 40, 190–91, 192,
194, 199, 200–201, 202, 336n87, 339n131
(see also apodictic knowledge); on clear
and distinct ideas, 182, 183, 201, 202, 203;
cogito of, 40, 189, 196–97, 200–201, 233;
Dioptrics, 218, 264; Discourse on Method,
176, 179, 181, 184–89, 192–93, 196, 200,
218, 246, 253, 264, 265, 335n67; dream
of, 177–78, 179–81, 185, 192, 205, 334n39,
334n46; early life and education, 173–75,
177, 185, 332nn8–9; Enlightenment and,
257, 258; expropriation of world by,
200; on fear of the Lord, 170–71, 205;
fears about reception of his ideas, 183,
188, 336n70, 355n20; Hermeticism and,
83, 171, 174, 175, 177, 178, 179, 180–81,
185, 206, 333n25, 334n42; heterodox
theology of, 183, 184, 202, 335n59;
Hobbes and, 194, 217, 222–23, 254;
Hobbes’ debate with, 42, 218, 220, 221,