Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Introduction Richard Kroll; Part I. The Cambridge Platonists: Philosophy at Mid-Century: 2. Henry More, the Kabbalah, and the Quakers Alison P. Coudert; 3. Edward Stillingfleet, Henry More, and the decline of Moses Atticus: a note on seventeenth-century Anglican apologetics Sarah Hutton; 4. Latitudinarians, Neoplatonists, and the Ancient Wisdom Joseph M. Levine; 5. Cudworth, More and the mechanical analogy Alan Gabbey; 6. Cudworth and Hobbes on is and ought Perez Zagorin; Part II. The Restoration Settlement: 7. Latitudinarianism and toleration: Historical myth versus political history Richard Ashcraft; 8. The intellectual sources of Robert Boyle's philosophy of nature: Gassendi's voluntariam, and Boyle's physico-theological project Margaret J. Osler; 9. Latitudinarianism and the 'ideology' of the early Royal Society: Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal Society (1667) reconsidered Michael Hunter; 10. Locke and the latitude-men: ignorance as a ground of toleration G. A. J. Rogers; 11. John Locke and Latitudinarianism John Marshall; Notes on contributors; Index.

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This interdisciplinary collection of essays looks at the distinctively English intellectual, social and political phenomenon of Latitudinarianism.