Theological Origins of Modernity

5, 42; modern science and, 5, 35, 37;
nominalist revolution and, 280; radical
Hegelians and, 283
materialism: Descartes’ doubt and, 196,
337n102; God’s relationship with creation
and, 36, 302n39; of Hobbes, 220,
248, 249, 252, 266; scientifi c, 280
mathematics: in Galileo’s analysis of motion,
263; Hermeticism and, 176; Hobbes
and, 216, 219, 221, 224–25, 233–34, 267,
346n93; modern world and, 169
mathematics in Descartes’ thought: doubt
and, 193–94, 200, 201, 202; Hobbes and,
234, 267; science and, 40, 180–81, 183,
184, 187, 191, 192, 204–5, 206, 263
mathesis universalis, 187, 205, 222, 234, 259,
267, 269
Maurice, Prince of Orange, 174, 332n17
Mawdudi, Mawlana, 293, 361n6
Mazzotta, Giuseppe, 304n12, 305nn36–37,
305nn46–47, 306nn52–53, 307nn67–68,
310n117, 314n26
McCormick, John, 350n137
McGrath, Alister, 320n9, 321n44
McGrew, Anthony, 295n1
McIntosh, Christopher, 333n22
McNeill, John, 300n19
McSorley, Harry J., 145, 155, 166, 325n7,
326n32, 326n34, 327n35, 327nn40–42,
328n61, 328n65, 329n83, 329n85, 329n94,
331n145
Medici, 82, 83, 88, 89
medieval world: modern world and, 11, 12,
14, 46; origins of, 19–20; passing of, 4,
45. See also Middle Ages
Meier, Heinrich, 345n65, 350n137
Melanchthon, Philipp, 96, 135, 136, 137, 138,
167, 322n60, 328n66
mendicant orders, 102, 136
Mersenne, Marin: Descartes and, 177, 181,
183, 184, 187, 194–95, 198; Hobbes and,
217, 218, 219, 264, 343n57, 346n87
Mésland, 195
metaphysica generalis, 16, 113, 132
metaphysica specialis, 16, 113–14, 132, 270,
271, 273–74, 280, 282. See also God,
man, and nature
index 377
metaphysics and modernity, 15–18,
262, 270, 273–74, 279–80. See also
ontology
Michael of Cesena, 26, 47
Michael Psellos, 82
Michel, Karl Markus, 336n73, 354n7
Michelangelo, 82, 168–69, 331n154
Middle Ages, 3, 5, 297n10. See also medieval
world
Miethke, Jürgen, 299nn5–6, 300n15
Mill, John Stuart, 40
Miller, Ted, 218, 342n35, 346n84, 346n86
Milton, John, v, 257, 316n53, 329n95
Mintz, Samuel I., 343n49, 343n55, 349n127,
352n145
miracles: Erasmus on, 330n122; Hobbes on,
248, 250–51
Mitchell, Joshua, 226–27, 345n65, 349n116,
349n125, 353n150, 353n153
modernity: antiquity and, 3, 4, 5, 8–9, 227;
change and, 36–37, 298n18; Christianity
and, 11–12, 14, 226–27, 357n34;
chronological extent of, 295nn3–4;
concept of, 1–5; contradictions intrinsic
to, 17–18, 42, 263, 284, 285; conventional
story of, x–xi, 10–11; crisis of, ix–x,
7–10, 17, 283–84; early critique of, 256;
Enlightenment and, 42, 257; humanism
and, 226–27; Islam and, 292, 293;
metaphysics and, 14, 15–18, 262, 270,
273–74, 279–80; progress and, 5, 6, 281,
293, 297n11; religion and, xi–xii (see also
secularization); science and, xi, 35, 227,
270; self-consciousness of, 36; transference
of divine attributes in, 273–76, 277;
two goals of, 42
Moglio, 77
Moldenhauer, Eva, 336n73, 354n7
Molesworth, Guliemi, 346n87
Molesworth, William, 341n2
Mommsen, Th eodore, 296n6
Montaigne, Michel de: Descartes and,
174, 177, 184, 187, 335n66; Hobbes and,
217; humanism and, 99, 181–82, 189;
Petrarch and, 311n151
Montinari, Mazzino, 298nn26–27, 358n41
Moosa, Ebrahim, 360n1