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Covetous of Truth

The Life and Work of Thomas White, 1593–1676

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  • © 1993

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  1. Beverley C. Southgate

    1. University of Hertfordshire, UK

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Beverley C. Southgate
    Pages 1-6

  3. Reputation

    • Beverley C. Southgate
    Pages 7-11

  4. The Man

    • Beverley C. Southgate
    Pages 12-20

  5. Life

    • Beverley C. Southgate
    Pages 21-33

  6. Blackloism

    • Beverley C. Southgate
    Pages 34-41

  7. Politics: The Grounds of Obedience and Government

    • Beverley C. Southgate
    Pages 42-52

  8. Politics: Responses to The Grounds

    • Beverley C. Southgate
    Pages 53-65

  9. The Context of Scepticism

    • Beverley C. Southgate
    Pages 66-82

  10. The Context of Scholasticism

    • Beverley C. Southgate
    Pages 83-92

  11. Science Old and New: Cosmology

    • Beverley C. Southgate
    Pages 93-103

  12. Science Old and New: Physics

    • Beverley C. Southgate
    Pages 104-118

  13. Science Old and New: Psychology

    • Beverley C. Southgate
    Pages 119-126

  14. Science and Religion

    • Beverley C. Southgate
    Pages 127-137

  15. Influence

    • Beverley C. Southgate
    Pages 138-143

  16. Epilogue

    • Beverley C. Southgate
    Pages 144-145

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 146-196
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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, 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.

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  • University of Hertfordshire, UK

    Beverley C. Southgate

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