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“The Legacy of a ‘Living Library’: On the Reception of John Smith”

Chapter in Revisioning Cambridge Platonism, Douglas Hedley, Sarah Hutton, and David Leech, eds. The International Archives of the History of Ideas. Springer. 2019. Pre-publication text available here.  

Reason Turned into Sense: John Smith on Spiritual Sensation

Reason Turned into Sense: John Smith on Spiritual Sensation, Peeters, 2017. ISBN: 978-90-429-3482-5 Studies in Philosophical Theology, 62 John Smith (1618-1652), long known for the elegance of his prose and the breadth of his erudition, has been underappreciated as a philosophical theologian. This book redresses this by showing how the spiritual senses became an essential toolContinue reading “Reason Turned into Sense: John Smith on Spiritual Sensation”