Valentine Greatrakes [ Science / Art and Literature ]
… of both a conscious and an unconscious desire to recover the atmosphere of magical and charismatic sociability. People > Science People > Art and Literature Keywords Health Irrational Crowd Nature Religion Supernaturalism In 1666 Valentine … Performed (London: J. Downing, 1723), p.28 3 . See Eamon Duffy, ‘Valentine Greatrakes, the Irish Stroker: Miracle, Science, and Orthodoxy in Restoration England’, Studies in Church History (Volume 17: Religion and Humanism, 198), p. 251 … and beliefs were increasingly challenged by the emergence of a scientific, rationalist and empiricist culture. Still, science and faith were not regarded as mutually exclusive at this time. Neither the empiricists nor the Enlightenment …
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