Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter I: Philosophia ancilla theologiae: The Theological Origins of Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of Nature -- 1. Philosophia ancilla theologiae -- 2. Edwards's Typological and Emblematic View of the World of Nature -- 3. The Great Chain of Being -- 4. The God of Mechanical Philosophers -- 5. The School of "Physico-theology" -- 6. Edwards and the School of Physico-theology -- Chapter II: The Rise of Modern Science and the Decline of Theology as the "Queen of Sciences" in the Early Modern Era -- 1. Regina Scientiarum-Theology as the "Queen of Sciences" -- 2. Copernicus-"Astronomy is Written for Astronomers" -- 3. Kepler-The New Physica Coelestis -- 4. Galileo-The Book of Nature "is Written in the Language of Mathematics" -- Chapter III: "All Coherence Gone"-Donne and the "New Philosophy" -- 1. The New Scientia Naturalis -- 2. The New Science of Nature: Fears, Doubts, and Anxieties -- 3. Donne and the "New Philosophy" -- a) "Doubts and Anxieties": Ignatius His Conclave -- b) "All Coherence Gone": The First Anniversarie -- Chapter IV: "God of Abraham" and "Not of Philosophers": Pascal against the Philosophers' Disenchantment of the World -- 1. "The Eternal Silence of These Infinite Spaces Frightens Me" -- 2. Pascal against the "Philosophers" -- 3. "The God of Abraham" and not "the God of Philosophers" -- 4. The Theater of Nature: Natura Naturata and Natura Naturans -- Chapter V: Religion and the Newtonian Universe -- 1. Newton and the Newtonians -- 2. God "Very Well Skilled in Mechanics and Geometry" -- 3. Science's Disenchantment of the World and the Eighteenth-century Imagination -- 4. Reaction to Newton and the Newtonians' "Subversion and Ruin of Religion" -- a) John Edwards against the Newtonian "New Systems in Divinity".

b) Robert Greene against Mechanical Philosophy's "Subversion and Ruin of Religion" -- c) Leibniz against Newton's "Very Odd Opinion Concerning the Work of God" -- d) Swift against the "New Systems of Nature" -- e) Blake's "Contempt & Abhorrence" of Bacon, Locke, and Newton -- Chapter VI: Jonathan Edwards and the "Age of Enlightenment" -- 1. The Enlightened Age -- 2. Deism -- 3. Natural Philosophy -- 4. History -- 5. Ethics and Morals -- Chapter VII: Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of Nature: The Re-enchantment of the World in the Age of Scientific Reasoning -- 1. Edwards and the New Philosophy -- 2. The Genesis of Edwards's Philosophy of Nature -- 3. Mechanical Philosophy's Disenchantment of the World -- 4. Atomic Doctrine -- 5. The Laws of Nature -- 6. God and the World -- 7. The Nature of the Created Order -- 8. Idealism -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.