Lloyd Strickland is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy in the Department of History, Politics & Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He has published four books: Leibniz Reinterpreted (2006), Shorter Leibniz Texts (2006), Leibniz and the Two Sophies (2011), and Leibniz's Monadology (2014). He also runs a website which houses some of his Leibniz translations: http://www.leibniz-translations.com

• AbbreviationsIntroductionRecommended further readingPart I: The Catholic DemonstrationsPart II: The Existence and Nature of God (a) The existence of God(b) The nature of GodPart III: Reason and Faith Part IV: Ethics and Love of God Part V: Grace and PredestinationPart VI: The BiblePart VII: Miracles and mysteriesPart VIII: The churches and their doctrinesPart IX: Sin, Evil, and TheodicyPart X: The Afterlife (a) Resurrection(b) Purgatory(c) Salvation and damnationPart XI: Non-Christian Religions Index

A wonderful volume which is just as necessary as it is important. Strickland has done a great service in meticulously and artfully combining Leibniz’s complicated views about the major facets of his beliefs concerning God and religion into one text ... The book is recommended without the slightest bit of reservation. The text is an invaluable source for not only scholars working on Leibniz and early modern thought, but to philosophers of religion as well.

Lloyd Strickland is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy in the Department of History, Politics & Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He has published four books: Leibniz Reinterpreted (2006), Shorter Leibniz Texts (2006), Leibniz and the Two Sophies (2011), and Leibniz's Monadology (2014). He also runs a website which houses some of his Leibniz translations: http://www.leibniz-translations.com

• AbbreviationsIntroductionRecommended further readingPart I: The Catholic DemonstrationsPart II: The Existence and Nature of God (a) The existence of God(b) The nature of GodPart III: Reason and Faith Part IV: Ethics and Love of God Part V: Grace and PredestinationPart VI: The BiblePart VII: Miracles and mysteriesPart VIII: The churches and their doctrinesPart IX: Sin, Evil, and TheodicyPart X: The Afterlife (a) Resurrection(b) Purgatory(c) Salvation and damnationPart XI: Non-Christian Religions Index

A wonderful volume which is just as necessary as it is important. Strickland has done a great service in meticulously and artfully combining Leibniz’s complicated views about the major facets of his beliefs concerning God and religion into one text ... The book is recommended without the slightest bit of reservation. The text is an invaluable source for not only scholars working on Leibniz and early modern thought, but to philosophers of religion as well.

Lloyd Strickland is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy in the Department of History, Politics & Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He has published four books: Leibniz Reinterpreted (2006), Shorter Leibniz Texts (2006), Leibniz and the Two Sophies (2011), and Leibniz's Monadology (2014). He also runs a website which houses some of his Leibniz translations: http://www.leibniz-translations.com

• AbbreviationsIntroductionRecommended further readingPart I: The Catholic DemonstrationsPart II: The Existence and Nature of God (a) The existence of God(b) The nature of GodPart III: Reason and Faith Part IV: Ethics and Love of God Part V: Grace and PredestinationPart VI: The BiblePart VII: Miracles and mysteriesPart VIII: The churches and their doctrinesPart IX: Sin, Evil, and TheodicyPart X: The Afterlife (a) Resurrection(b) Purgatory(c) Salvation and damnationPart XI: Non-Christian Religions Index

A wonderful volume which is just as necessary as it is important. Strickland has done a great service in meticulously and artfully combining Leibniz’s complicated views about the major facets of his beliefs concerning God and religion into one text ... The book is recommended without the slightest bit of reservation. The text is an invaluable source for not only scholars working on Leibniz and early modern thought, but to philosophers of religion as well.