Download or read book An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature written by Nathaniel Culverwell and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1971-12-15 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composed in a period of religious and political upheaval, Culverwell's Discourse of the Light of Nature is an imaginative statement of the teachings of Christian humanism concerning the nature and limits of human reason and the related concepts of natural and divine law. The lengthy introduction to this new critical edition throws light on the evolution of English rationalism in the seventeenth century, and the annotation establishes for the first time the full range of Culverwell's sources – classical, medieval, and Renaissance – and enables the reader to appreciate his manner of citing authority and handling illustration. (Department of English Studies and Texts 17)