Philosophy, God and Motion (Paperback)

Introduction.  Part one: Plato's Timaeus and the Soul's Motion of Knowing  1. The Nature of the Cosmos  2. Reason, Necessity and the Power of Rhetorical Persuasion  3. The Pedagogy and Ethics of Cosmology  Part two: Aristotle: Ecstasy and intensifying motion  1. The Physics and Nature's Motion  2. Ecstasy and Intensification  3. The Ethics of Motion: Place, limit and God  Part three: Light, Motion and Scientia Experimentalis  1. Robert Grosseteste: The science of light and the light of truth  2. The Experimentum  3. Roger Bacon: Truth and experiment  Part four: St Thomas Aquinas: The God of motion  1. At the Limits of Aristotelian Physics  2. Motion and God  3. Virtue, Grace and Motion  4. Christ, the Eucharist and Motion  Part five: The Isolation of Physics  1. Avicenna on Metaphysics and Physics  2. The Theory of Impetus and the Quantification of Motion  Part six: Newton: God without motion  1. The Theological Context of Newtonian Motion  2. Motion in the Principia  3. The Absolute Space, Christ and Motion  4. The Fate of Mechanistic Motion  Conclusion.