Skip to main content

Free UK delivery for orders £30

Description

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716), one of the most prominent figures in both the history of philosophy and the history of mathematics, but also one of the greatest advocates of Christian unity of the early modern period, may just have the solution to divisions within the Church with his unique understanding of the nature of the Church.

Leibniz's unique theological metaphysics and pioneering thought on the centrality of the concept of person, makes his ideas on the nature of the Church particularly promising. The book presents how Leibniz's ideas are formed by history and meetings with extraordinary figures, and how these ideas mature and develop through time into a theological-metaphysics, and much later as a philosophy of personalism that secures Leibniz's place as an early pioneer of the philosophical movement of personalism. Leibniz on the Nature of the Church presents a historical, systematic, and provocative reading of these (until now) overlooked ideas.

Accessibility Information

Additional accessibility information

  • EPUB 3.0
  • Conforms with the requirements of EPUB Accessibility Spec v1.1
  • WCAG level AA
  • WCAG v2.2 compliant
  • accessibility@bloomsbury.com

Hazards

The publication contains no hazards

Support for non-visual reading

  • No accessibility features offered by the reading system, device or reading software are disabled or otherwise unusable with the product
  • Has alternative text descriptions for images

Visual adjustments

Appearance of the text and page layout can be modified according to the capabilities of the reading system (font family and size, spaces, as well as color of background and text)

Navigation

  • Page list to go to pages from the print source version
  • Elements such as headings, tables, etc for structured navigation
  • All or substantially all textual matter is arranged in a single logical reading order
  • Content is enhanced with ARIA roles to optimize organization and facilitate navigation
  • Purposes of all links are made clear

Rich content

Language tagging provided

Table of Contents

Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Historical Background of Leibniz's Formation
2. Development of Leibniz's Ecclesiology (Early and Middle Years: 1646–1689)
3. Towards a Final Theory on the Church (Later Period: 1690–1716)
4. Recurring Themes of Leibnizian Ecclesiology
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Product details

Published 18 Sep 2025
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Pages 384
ISBN 9781666971071
Imprint T&T Clark
Illustrations 4 tables
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

AG

Author

Avelino González-Ferrer

Avelino González-Ferrer is a priest of th…

Reviews

  • Leibniz sought from one set of principles to account for the new mathematical laws of physics, perception and appetition in animals, mind and will in humans. All would be comprehended under his innovative ideas of substance and force. But equal to universality in its importance for Leibniz was harmonization of oppositions: Plato vs. Aristotle, teleology vs. mechanism, the goodness of God vs. the evil of the world, and, especially, Catholic vs. Protestant. Leibniz's attempt to reconcile the two great religions of Western Christianity, deeply divided in the Thirty Years War, is the focus of Leibniz on the Nature of the Church. It is a unique tour de force of intellectual history, theology and philosophy.

    Richard F. Hassing, Research Associate Professor, Catholic University of America, USA

ONLINE RESOURCES

Bloomsbury Collections

This book is available on Bloomsbury Collections where your library has access.

Go to this book on Bloomsbury Collections.

Environment: Staging