Theological Origins of Modernity

Friedman, Th omas L., 295n1
Fukuyama, Francis, 298n21
Fuller, Timothy, 353n152, 353n154
Funkenstein, Amos, xii, 225, 296n6,
298n23, 300n9, 301n33, 302n34, 302n48,
314n23, 315n34, 340n146, 346n79
Furet, François, 357n37
Gabbey, Alan, 334n41
Galileo: critique of modern project and,
8; Descartes and, 174, 181, 184, 194, 263;
Hermeticism and, 83; Hobbes and,
217–18, 224, 263; origin of modernity
and, xi, 19; science of motion, 39,
314n23; on sense-perception, 217
Garrod, H. W., 319n102
Gassendi, Pierre, 217, 219, 268
Gaukroger, Stephen, 331n5, 331n7, 332n14,
332n17, 334n52, 335nn53–54, 335n57,
335n64
Geach, P., 349n127, 352n149
Gemistus Pletho, George, 81, 82
general will, 273, 275, 277, 357n38
Gerrish, B. A., 327n39, 328n62, 330n133
Gerson, Jean, 27, 174
Gert, Bernard, 347n95
Ghazali, Abu Hamid al-, 290, 291, 292, 293,
360nn1–2, 361n3
Gibieuf, Guillaume, 182–83
Gilbert, Neal W., 326n30, 326n33
Gilbert, William, 341n4
Gillespie, Michael Allen, 298n20, 299n5,
340n155, 355n13, 355n17, 357n29, 358n40
Gilson, Etienne, 11, 72–73, 194, 298n22,
313n10, 332nn10–11, 340nn148–49
globalization, ix, xi, 10, 43, 285–87, 295n1,
359n47
Gloclenius, Rudolph, 332n11
Glover, Willis, 349nn127–28, 351n138,
352n146
Gnosticism: Blumenberg on, 11, 156,
300n19, 356n28; Ficino and, 85; free will
and, 142; Manicheanism and, 315n37;
post-structuralists and, 360n47; Voegelin
on, 356n28
God: Blumenberg on modernity and, 11,
12; of Descartes, 171, 268, 269, 273, 275;
Descartes’ ontological argument and,
index 371
201–5, 339n130, 339n144; Eckhart’s view
of, 35; of Enlightenment, 275; Hobbes
on, 209, 230–31, 248–52, 254, 268,
352nn144–47; as human construct, 272;
Italian humanists and, 71; Luther’s understanding
of, 114–16, 321n45, 321n47,
322n53; nominalist, 15, 24–25, 29, 274,
300nn8–11, 300n17. See also death of
God; deus absconditus; Holy Spirit;
omnipotence, divine; pantheism; Trinity;
will, divine
God, man, and nature: Descartes vs.
Hobbes on, 39–42, 265–66; Enlightenment
and, 42, 274–75; Hegel’s reconciliation
of, 282; Hobbes’ priority of
nature, 17, 248, 249, 262n63, 271, 355–16;
humanism vs. Reformation and, 16–17,
34–35, 261–62; Kant’s antinomy and, 7,
17, 43, 262; Luther on, 127, 128; medieval
disintegration and, 45; modernity and,
xi, xii, 14, 17, 35, 39–40, 42–43, 262, 270,
273–74; nominalist revolution and, 16.
See also metaphysica specialis
Goddu, André, 300n9
Godman, Peter, 317nn65–67
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 278, 279
Goldblatt, David, 295n1
Goodman, Lenn E., 361n5
Gordon, G., 296n2
“Gothic,” 3, 297n8
Gottschalk, 116
Gouhier, Henri, 178, 194
grace: Augustine on, 116, 127, 143, 150, 164;
church’s position on, 108; Erasmus
on, 149, 150–51, 163–64, 167, 328n59,
328n67; Ficino on nature as, 85, 150,
328n67; Gregory of Rimini and, 301n26;
Hobbes’ debate with Bramhall and,
220; Karlstadt on, 150; nominalism and,
24, 28, 105; original sin and, 64; Pelagianism
and, 56, 143, 150, 301n25
grace, in Luther’s theology: Christ and,
120–21; church and, 124–25, 131; debate
with Erasmus and, 152, 153, 155, 163;
distinguished from his predecessors,
116–17; humanism and, 136; indulgences
and, 109; love and, 325n120;
nominalism and, 131; Paul and, 127–28;