ABSTRACT
Margaret Cavendish was bothered by God, as much as she might have preferred to avoid worrying about the being that had inspired so much upheaval in her life. Moreover, and it is here that the different meanings of 'nature' become most relevant to Cavendish's theology, God gave eternal and infinite Nature freedom to order everything in the material world. Cavendish's concepts of God and Nature led her to a form of religious skepticism known as fideism. Margaret Cavendish rejection of the notion that man could in some sense know the essence of God, and her theory of vitalistic materialism all contributed towards the firm belief that when it comes to faith. Thus, a negative theology is better than a natural theology, and faith itself in part is acknowledging that one can never know God through his works. Cavendish understood that her unconventional Christianity could be construed as blasphemous. There are many professions of faith scattered throughout Cavendish's works.
