{"product_id":"9789401048170","title":"Covetous of Truth : The Life and Work of Thomas White, 1593-1676 (International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives Internationales D'histoire D (Reprint)","description":"\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","brand":"Springer Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52365073580343,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":595.92,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.my\/products\/9789401048170","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Malaysia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}