The Alliance of Christianity and Mechanistic Philosophy in 17thCentury England

by                                                                                                                Sveinbjorn Thordarson                                                                                            (University of Edinburgh) 

  Abstract  While scholars have paid much attention to the Darwinian controversies of 19th century  England, the roots of the robust and long‐standing synthesis of theology and mechanistic  science which Darwin's theory of evolution challenged has received much less attention.   The  second  half  of  the  seventeenth  century  saw  the  seminal  development  of  this  synthesis, during which monumental philosophical efforts were made by Robert Boyle,  Walter  Charleton  and  other  English  natural  philosophers  to  accommodate  Christian  theology within a framework of mechanistic and empirical science based partly on the  atomistic  principles  of  the  Greek  materialist  philosopher  Epicurus.    These  efforts  gave  birth  to  a  close  alliance  between  English  theology  and  experimental  science  which  would largely hold throughout most of the eighteenth century, albeit in a modified form.   I  discuss  this  peculiarly  English  phenomenon,  which  brought  together  strange  bedfellows:  Christian theology and the most uncompromisingly materialistic antifinalist  philosophy of antiquity.   

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