At the origins of modern atheism /
Michael J. Buckley,
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 1987
- viii, 445 p. ; 25 cm.
Religion as bankrupt: Catholic theologians and the origins of modern atheism. -- The existence of God and the new philosophic consciousness: 1, God as the pledge of a universal mathematics: Rene Descartes; 2, God in the discourse of a universal mechanics: Isaac Newton. -- The assimilation of theology into the new philosophic consciousness: 1, The mystical theology of controversy: Nicholas Malebranche; 2, The logistic theology from mechanics: Samuel Clarke. -- The atheistic transformation of Denis Diderot. -- Atheism as the system of nature: Baron Paul Henri d'Holbach. -- The dialectical origins of Atheism.