期刊全称 | Covetous of Truth | 期刊简称 | The Life and Work of | 影响因子2023 | Beverley C. Southgate | 视频video | | 学科分类 | International Archives of the History of Ideas‘ Archives internationales d‘histoire des idées | 图书封面 |  | 影响因子 | Thomas White, in the quatercentenary of his birth, is due for historical rehabilitation. English Catholic priest, philosopher, theologian, and scientist, he was a renowned and notorious figure in his own day; and, though long forgot ten, his work exemplifies aspects of major current concern to historians of ideas: in particular, the significance of the newly-revived sceptical philosophy; the complexity ofthe transition from scholasticism to the new philosophy; and the whole role of"minor", non-canonical figures in the historyofthought. White‘s writings embrace theology, politics, and natural philosophy, or science‘; and in all these three areas, his work, after centuries of comparative neglect, has slowly been resurfacing. His theological significance received intermittent recognition through the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early-twentieth centuries; but more recently his great importance as leader of a whole "Blackloist" faction of English Catholics has become increasingly clear. Condemned by co-religionists in his own time as a dangerous heretic, he has been assessed by modem scholars as an anticipator of twentieth-century trends in Catholic theology, and even as "probably, afte | Pindex | Book 1993 |
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