Theological Origins of Modernity

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Descartes, René (continued)
228, 261, 264–70, 276, 355nn19–20; Little
Notebook, 176, 178–80, 183, 185, 194, 204,
334n42, 335n59; mathematics and (see
mathematics in Descartes’ thought);
Meditations, 177, 193–95, 196–97, 202,
336n89 (see also Hobbes, Th omas:
Descartes’ debate with); modernity
and, xi, 5, 8, 17, 19, 39, 40–41, 42, 262–63,
273–74; ontological argument of, 201–5,
339n130, 339n144; Passions of the Soul,
222, 223, 338n127; Petrarch compared to,
177, 185, 187, 309n99; religion’s role and,
271–72; religious beliefs of, 174, 332n16;
religious confl icts of the time and, 173,
174, 175, 177, 186, 332n17; Rosicrucianism
and, 175–76, 177, 179, 180–81, 182, 183,
185, 333n23, 333n35, 334nn41–42, 335n57;
Rules for the Regulation of the Mind, 179,
183, 190–91, 197; on sense-perception,
217, 263, 265; skepticism and, 182, 184,
192, 193–96, 200, 265, 337n92, 338n126;
on the will, 40–41, 171, 197–98, 199–200,
204, 205, 267, 338n119, 338n127, 339n139;
Th e World, 184. See also Cartesianism;
dualism, Cartesian
Descartes’ new science: beginnings of, 170,
176–77, 179, 181, 185; certainty and, 190–
92; existing political order and, 253;
fundamental principle of, 189; Hobbes
compared to, 222, 263–64; mastery of
nature and, 40–41, 204–5, 206; method
of doubt and, 193–94, 200; nominalism
and, 40–41, 171, 183–84, 190
determinism: Hume on, 355n11; idea of
history and, 285; Luther and, 145–46;
modernity’s deep divide and, 17; of
nominalists, 29. See also freedom;
necessity
deus absconditus (hidden God): Descartes
and, 171, 204; Erasmus’s response on,
165; Heidegger and, 272, 273; Hobbes
and, 248, 345n78; Luther and, 114, 115,
127, 156–59; post-structuralism and,
360n47; Protestantism and, 226, 227
devil (Satan): Erasmus and, 148; Hobbes
and, 250; Milton on, 329n95; Staupitz
on, 106, 116
devil, in Luther’s theology, 106, 115, 122,
126–27; church corruption and, 109,
110, 131; debate with Erasmus and, 151,
155, 156, 159, 163, 165; end of days and,
112; Scripture and, 117, 118; the will and,
119–20, 144, 146, 154–55
devotio moderna, 93, 94, 95, 97, 99, 318n78,
320n16
Dick, Oliver Lawson, 341n12
Dickens, A. G., 325n5
dictatores, 71–72
Diderot, Denis, 275, 276, 357n36
Diet of Worms, 110
dignity, human, 71, 77, 78, 84, 85, 164, 315n31
Dillenberger, John, 320n3, 322n59,
322nn61–62, 322n66, 322n70, 323n75,
323n78, 323nn80–82, 323n88
Dionysii, Sugurus Abbas S., 296n1
divine right of kings, 211, 213
Dominici, Giovanni, 77
Donation of Constantine, 79, 110
Dorey, T. A., 330n142
Dosse, François, 360n47
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 330n131
Dreyfus, Hubert, 358n40
Dryden, John, 6
dualism, Cartesian, 191, 263; Hobbes’ attack
on, 218, 249, 265, 266
dualism, Platonic, 308n91
Dunn, Kevin, 335n67, 336n88
Dupré, Louis, 301n23
Dürer, Albrecht, 81, 82, 136
Durham, W. Cole, Jr., 349n116
Ebeling, Gerhard, 322n53, 324n95
Eck, Johann, 109, 127, 144
Eckhart, Meister, 35–36, 43, 81, 249, 302n38,
339n142
Eco, Umberto, 299n1, 316n46
Edict of Nantes, 172, 173
Edward VI, 211
Eisenach, Eldon, 226, 341n10, 350n130,
350n135
Elea del Medigo, 85
Eliade, Mircea, 296n2
Elizabeth, Princess, 188, 206
Elizabeth I, 211
Emberly, Peter, 351n137