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  3. Spinoza and the Irrelevance of Biblical Authority
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      03 February 2010
      15 March 2001
      ISBN:
      9780511554759
      9780521800136
      9780521093538
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511554759
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.46kg, 246 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.32kg, 248 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Philosophy: General Interest, Religion, Philosophy, Theology
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    Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise (1670) is a landmark both in democratic political theory and in the history of biblical interpretation. Spinoza championed liberty of thought, speech and writing by discrediting the Bible as the standard for truth and a source of public law. Applying a new historical criticism, he showed that biblical teaching and law were irrelevant for a modern pluralistic state and its intellectual life. J. Samuel Preus highlights Spinoza's achievement by reading the Treatise in the context of a literary conflict among his contemporaries about biblical interpretation - a conflict fraught with political implication. Preus's exposition of neglected primary sources surrounding Spinoza's work offers evidence regarding his rhetorical strategy and intent in the Treatise. The book provides not only a valuable contribution to Spinoza scholarship but an important account of the origins of modern methods of biblical interpretation.

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    Review of the hardback:‘… what makes the Theological-Political Treatise truly radical and modern is the profound reciprocity that Spinoza establishes between the hermeneutical authority of the Bible and the constitutional authority of the democratic polity.’

    Source: Brill

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