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Note from Nathaniel Spinckes to an Unidentified Male
This note is dated 8 April 1704, is addressed to an unidentified male, and acknowledges receipt of a letter and money. This item bears the earlier collection number (accession number) [M]4064.
"Be Sober and Reasonable"
Be Sober and Reasonable deals with the theological and medical critique of “enthusiasm” in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and with the relationship between enthusiasm and the new natural philosophy in that period. “Enthusiasm” at that time was a label ascribed to various individuals and groups who claimed to have direct divine inspiration — prophets, millenarists, alchemists, but also experimental philosophers, and even philosophers like Descartes. The book attempts to combine the perspectives of Intellectual history, Church history, history of medicine, and history of science, in analysing the various reactions to enthusiasm. The central thesis of the book is that the reaction to enthusiasm, especially in the Protestant world, may provide one important key to the origins of the Enlightenment, and to the processes of secularization of European consciousness.
The Mental Universe of the English Nonjurors
The Glorious Revolution of 1688, which pushed James II from the throne of England, was not glorious for everyone; in fact, for many, it was a great disaster. Those who had already taken an oath of allegiance to James II and “to his heirs and lawful successors” now pondered how they could take a second oath to William and Mary. Those who initially refused to swear the oaths were called Nonjurors. In 1691, Archbishop Sancroft, eight bishops, and four hundred clergy of the Church of England, as well as a substantial number of scholars at Oxford and Cambridge, were deprived, removed from their offices and their license to practice removed. The loss of this talent to the realm was incalcuable...
Gender in Mystical and Occult Thought
An evaluation of the intellectual legacy in England of the ideas of Jacob Boehme (1575-1624).
An Apology for the Doctrine of Apostolical Succession: with an Appendix
Reprint of the original, first published in 1841.
