ABSTRACT
This chapter juxtaposes early modern religious currents with scientific ones and shows how science raised issues to which religious thinkers had to respond, including especially the question of how humanity’s growing knowledge of the cosmos affected traditional approaches to the divine. It also shows how religious debates necessarily impinged on political ones. Among other thinkers considered are Antoine Arnauld (1612–1694), Jacqueline-Marie-Angélique Arnauld (1591–1661), Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582), Cornelius Jansen (1585–1638), Luis de Molina (1533–1600), and Blaise Pascal (1623–1662).
