Cambridge Platonists

Tod E. Jones is the author of The Broad Church: A Biography of a Movement (Lexington, 2003). He received his PhD in English from the University of Maryland, College Park, where he teaches as a Lecturer for the English Department and UM Libraries' User Education Services.Sara E. Phang received a B.A. in Classical Studies from Bryn Mawr College and a Ph.D. in Roman History from Columbia University. She held a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Classics at the University of Southern California in 2001-02.

• Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 AcknowledgmentsChapter 3 The Cambridge Platonists: A Brief Introduction: From Pre-Reformation to Pre-Restoration: The Social-Historical and Theological Context; Principle Persons and Representative Ideas; Reception; NotesChapter 4 Eight Letters of Dr. Antony Tuckney and Dr. Benjamin Whichcote: Editorial Notes and Abbreviations; Translator's Note; Title Page of the 1753 Edition; Preface by Samuel Salter; Letter I; Letter II; Letter III; Letter IV; Letter V; Letter VI; Letter VII; LeChapter 5 BibliographyChapter 6 IndexChapter 7 About the Author

The Cambridge Platonists provides an excellent introduction to an influential school of seventeenth-century thought. And the letters themselves are powerful examples of how two colleagues who disagreed over core issues of doctrine could still engage one another with civility and mutual respect.