J Samuel Preus
Biographic Data
| ID | 1046690 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Samuel Preus |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Samuel |
| FAMILY NAME | Preus |
| SIGNATURE | PREUS J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University Bloomington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reponse
Journal Article Reponse: Explaining Griffin Get access J. Samuel Preus J. Samuel Preus Indiana University (retired) Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 68, Issue 1, March 2000, Pages 127–132, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/68.1.127 Published: 01 March 2000
Part III
The intellectual relations that render Spinoza's groundbreaking Theological-political Treatise intelligible are explored by a reading of contemporary works by Christian authors, beginning with Ludwig Meyer's advocacy of a philosophical hermeneutic and continuingwith three critical responses to it, the last being Spinoza's Treatise itself. Spinoza's engagement in a Christian debateputs his exploitation of Christian terms and categories in sharperf…
Part IV
The historical connection between the study of the Bible and the study of religion is examined through Spinoza's application of his anthropomorphic theory of religion to his analysis of biblicalprophecy. Drawing on current epistemological discussion, Spinoza shows in the Ethics how the pervasive anthropomorphism of popular explanations of the world, rooted in imagination, develops into religious systems. This theory informs Spinoza's analysis of …
The Bible and Religion in the Century of Genius
In these essays, the intellectual revolution of the seventeenth century provides the proper historical context for understanding the emergence of both the study of the Bible and the study of religion as critical, historical and comparative enterprises. Since Benedict Spinoza and his circle are the central focus in this account, the first essay explores relevant aspects of context: Holland in its so-called ‘Golden Age’, and religious alienation an…
A Hidden Opponent in Spinoza's Tractatus
Studies of Benedict Spinoza's biblical interpretation rarely pay more than cursory attention to the contemporary context of that work. Analyses tend to focus on authors whom Spinoza singled out for attack in his Tractatus Theologico-Politicus , such as Moses Maimonides (died 1204) and a rabbi who later attacked him, Judah ibn Alfakhar (died 1235). After his excommunication in 1656, however, most of Spinoza's intellectual and social circle—those w…
Anthropomorphism and Spinoza's Innovations
The first and most rigorous early modern discussion of anthropomorphism in religion was produced by Benedict Spinoza. The intellectual context for his consideration was the problem posed by biblical anthropomorphism for the philosophical reader. This problem had been treated by Muslim and Jewish philosophers and was the central issue for Maimonides in his Guide of the Perplexed. Spinoza's major contributions in two areas—biblical interpretation a…
Religion and the Social Sciences
Secularizing Divination
Journal Article Secularizing Divination: Spiritual Biography and the Invention of the Novel Get access J. Samuel Preus J. Samuel Preus J. Samuel Preus is Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LIX, Issue 3, Fall 1991, Pages 441–466, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LIX.3.441 Published: 01 …
Explaining religion
Spinoza, Vico, and the Imagination of Religion
L'A. evoque l'influence de Spinoza sur Jean-Baptiste Vico, deux penseurs a l'origine de la science moderne des religions par leur attitude critique vis-a-vis des textes, par leur maniere de considerer le monde antique et ses constructions imaginatives comme ayant repondu a des necessites et vise des utilites sociales specifiques
Sin and Confession on the Eve of the Reformation
Machiavelli's Functional Analysis of Religion
Zwingli, Calvin and the Origin of Religion
In the contemporary intellectual and institutional world, a distinction betweentheologyand thestudy of religionis taken for granted. Those labels designate two quite separate disciplines or perspectives, even though their data overlap. Obviously, this distinction did not always exist within Christendom. Until about the middle of the seventeenth century, discussion of religion was almost always in the context of theology. But then, a new field of …
Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt
Ronald J. Sider. Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt: The Development of His Thought, 1517-1525. (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought, ed. Heiko A. Oberman, Vol. 11.) Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1974. 318 pp. Dfl.80. - Volume 29 Issue 2
Machiavelli's Functional Analysis of Religion
Part III
The intellectual relations that render Spinoza's groundbreaking Theological-political Treatise intelligible are explored by a reading of contemporary works by Christian authors, beginning with Ludwig Meyer's advocacy of a philosophical hermeneutic and continuingwith three critical responses to it, the last being Spinoza's Treatise itself. Spinoza's engagement in a Christian debateputs his exploitation of Christian terms and categories in sharperf…
The Bible and Religion in the Century of Genius
In these essays, the intellectual revolution of the seventeenth century provides the proper historical context for understanding the emergence of both the study of the Bible and the study of religion as critical, historical and comparative enterprises. Since Benedict Spinoza and his circle are the central focus in this account, the first essay explores relevant aspects of context: Holland in its so-called ‘Golden Age’, and religious alienation an…
Reponse
Journal Article Reponse: Explaining Griffin Get access J. Samuel Preus J. Samuel Preus Indiana University (retired) Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 68, Issue 1, March 2000, Pages 127–132, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/68.1.127 Published: 01 March 2000
Anthropomorphism and Spinoza's Innovations
The first and most rigorous early modern discussion of anthropomorphism in religion was produced by Benedict Spinoza. The intellectual context for his consideration was the problem posed by biblical anthropomorphism for the philosophical reader. This problem had been treated by Muslim and Jewish philosophers and was the central issue for Maimonides in his Guide of the Perplexed. Spinoza's major contributions in two areas—biblical interpretation a…
Spinoza, Vico, and the Imagination of Religion
L'A. evoque l'influence de Spinoza sur Jean-Baptiste Vico, deux penseurs a l'origine de la science moderne des religions par leur attitude critique vis-a-vis des textes, par leur maniere de considerer le monde antique et ses constructions imaginatives comme ayant repondu a des necessites et vise des utilites sociales specifiques
Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt
Ronald J. Sider. Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt: The Development of His Thought, 1517-1525. (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought, ed. Heiko A. Oberman, Vol. 11.) Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1974. 318 pp. Dfl.80. - Volume 29 Issue 2
Zwingli, Calvin and the Origin of Religion
In the contemporary intellectual and institutional world, a distinction betweentheologyand thestudy of religionis taken for granted. Those labels designate two quite separate disciplines or perspectives, even though their data overlap. Obviously, this distinction did not always exist within Christendom. Until about the middle of the seventeenth century, discussion of religion was almost always in the context of theology. But then, a new field of …
Sin and Confession on the Eve of the Reformation
Machiavelli's Functional Analysis of Religion
Explaining religion
Spinoza, Vico, and the Imagination of Religion
L'A. evoque l'influence de Spinoza sur Jean-Baptiste Vico, deux penseurs a l'origine de la science moderne des religions par leur attitude critique vis-a-vis des textes, par leur maniere de considerer le monde antique et ses constructions imaginatives comme ayant repondu a des necessites et vise des utilites sociales specifiques
Religion and the Social Sciences
Secularizing Divination
Journal Article Secularizing Divination: Spiritual Biography and the Invention of the Novel Get access J. Samuel Preus J. Samuel Preus J. Samuel Preus is Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LIX, Issue 3, Fall 1991, Pages 441–466, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LIX.3.441 Published: 01 …
A Hidden Opponent in Spinoza's Tractatus
Studies of Benedict Spinoza's biblical interpretation rarely pay more than cursory attention to the contemporary context of that work. Analyses tend to focus on authors whom Spinoza singled out for attack in his Tractatus Theologico-Politicus , such as Moses Maimonides (died 1204) and a rabbi who later attacked him, Judah ibn Alfakhar (died 1235). After his excommunication in 1656, however, most of Spinoza's intellectual and social circle—those w…
Anthropomorphism and Spinoza's Innovations
The first and most rigorous early modern discussion of anthropomorphism in religion was produced by Benedict Spinoza. The intellectual context for his consideration was the problem posed by biblical anthropomorphism for the philosophical reader. This problem had been treated by Muslim and Jewish philosophers and was the central issue for Maimonides in his Guide of the Perplexed. Spinoza's major contributions in two areas—biblical interpretation a…
Part III
The intellectual relations that render Spinoza's groundbreaking Theological-political Treatise intelligible are explored by a reading of contemporary works by Christian authors, beginning with Ludwig Meyer's advocacy of a philosophical hermeneutic and continuingwith three critical responses to it, the last being Spinoza's Treatise itself. Spinoza's engagement in a Christian debateputs his exploitation of Christian terms and categories in sharperf…
Part IV
The historical connection between the study of the Bible and the study of religion is examined through Spinoza's application of his anthropomorphic theory of religion to his analysis of biblicalprophecy. Drawing on current epistemological discussion, Spinoza shows in the Ethics how the pervasive anthropomorphism of popular explanations of the world, rooted in imagination, develops into religious systems. This theory informs Spinoza's analysis of …
The Bible and Religion in the Century of Genius
In these essays, the intellectual revolution of the seventeenth century provides the proper historical context for understanding the emergence of both the study of the Bible and the study of religion as critical, historical and comparative enterprises. Since Benedict Spinoza and his circle are the central focus in this account, the first essay explores relevant aspects of context: Holland in its so-called ‘Golden Age’, and religious alienation an…
Reponse
Journal Article Reponse: Explaining Griffin Get access J. Samuel Preus J. Samuel Preus Indiana University (retired) Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 68, Issue 1, March 2000, Pages 127–132, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/68.1.127 Published: 01 March 2000
Philosophy (13 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · History (9 works) · Theology (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Context (archaeology) (5 works) · Medieval and Classical Philosophy (5 works) · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works)