{"product_id":"9780792319269","title":"Covetous of Truth: The Life and Work of Thomas White, 1593–1676","description":"\u003ch1\u003eCovetous of Truth: The Life and Work of Thomas White, 1593–1676\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eSouthgate, B.C.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas 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, after John Henry Newman, the most original thinker as yet producedby modem English Catholicism.\"2 Blackloism implied not only a theological, but also a political position; and that position was clarified and publicised by White in his single political treatise, The Grounds of Obedience and Government, published in the mid­ 1650s. His provocative stance was widely misunderstood and misinterpreted, and was soon anyway rendered untenable by the restoration of the monarchy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 1993-01-31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9780792319269\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-94-011-1850-7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235.0cm x155.0cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 196.0\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Netherlands","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45378881421452,"sku":"9780792319269","price":98.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9780792319269_a4cf0d1e-5dcc-4902-ba93-e50e47e6d145.jpg?v=1765470568","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9780792319269","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}