The Cambridge Platonists: A Brief Introduction by Tod E. Jones; with Eight Letters of Dr. Antony Tuckney and Dr. Benjamin Whichcote

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The Cambridge Platonists is written with students and novice theologians in mind. It provides context as well as description, while outlining the most representative ideas of the school with clarity and brevity. This introduction will meet the needs of many readers, but for those beginning a study of the works of the Cambridge Platonists, the Eight Letters of Dr. Antony Tuckney and Dr. Benjamin Whichcote not only provide a logical starting point, in that they present the most characteristic ideas of Whichcote--arguably, the Cambridge Platonists founding member--but also helps to clarify what sets this school of religious thought apart from contemporary Puritan theology, as represented by Tuckney.

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The Cambridge Platonists provides an excellent introduction to an influential school of seventeenth-century thought. And the letters themselves are powerful examples of how two colleagues who disagreed over core issues of doctrine could still engage one another with civility and mutual respect. -- W. M. Spellman, W.M. Spellman, University of North Carolina * Anglican and Episcopal History *

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Tod E. Jones is the author of The Broad Church: A Biography of a Movement (Lexington, 2003). He received his PhD in English from the University of Maryland, College Park, where he teaches as a Lecturer for the English Department and UM Libraries' User Education Services.

Sara E. Phang received a B.A. in Classical Studies from Bryn Mawr College and a Ph.D. in Roman History from Columbia University. She held a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Classics at the University of Southern California in 2001-02.