TY - BOOK ID - 82839061 TI - Robert Boyle and the limits of reason PY - 1997 SN - 0521560292 0521525225 0511573006 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Natural theology KW - Philosophical theology KW - Reason KW - Theological anthropology KW - 1 BOYLE, ROBERT KW - Anthropology, Doctrinal KW - Anthropology, Theological KW - Body and soul (Theology) KW - Doctrinal anthropology KW - Humanity, Doctrine of KW - Man, Doctrine of KW - Man (Theology) KW - Mankind, Doctrine of KW - Religion KW - Theology, Philosophical KW - Philosophy and religion KW - Theology, Doctrinal KW - Mind KW - Intellect KW - Rationalism KW - Natural religion KW - Theology, Natural KW - Apologetics KW - God KW - Religion and science KW - Theology KW - Philosophy of nature KW - 1 BOYLE, ROBERT Filosofie. Psychologie--BOYLE, ROBERT KW - Filosofie. Psychologie--BOYLE, ROBERT KW - History of doctrines KW - History KW - Christianity KW - Boyle, Robert KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Boyle, Robert, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:82839061 AB - In this study of Robert Boyle's epistemology, Jan W. Wojcik reveals the theological context within which Boyle developed his views on reason's limits. After arguing that a correct interpretation of his views on 'things above reason' depends upon reading his works in the context of theological controversies in seventeenth-century England, Professor Wojcik details exactly how Boyle's three specific categories of things which transcend reason - the incomprehensible, the inexplicable, and the unsociable - affected his conception of what a natural philosopher could hope to know. Also covered in detail is Boyle's belief that God had deliberately limited the human intellect in order to reserve a full knowledge of both theology and natural philosophy for the afterlife. ER -