Irena Backus is Professor of Reformation History and Ecclesiastical Latin at the Institute of Reformation History at the University of Geneva.

• Abbreviations ; Introduction ; Part I. Eucharist and Substance ; 1. Transubstantiation and the Problem of Real Presence ; 2. Negotiations with the Reformed and the problem of real presence ; Appendix to Chapter 2: A selection of texts on the negotiations ; Part II. Predestination and Necessity ; 3. Predestination ; 4. Necessity ; 5. Leibniz and Augustine ; Part III. Leibniz the Historian of the Sacred ; 6. Leibniz's Concept of Historia Sacra ; 7. History, Apocalyptic Prophecy, Early Heresies: Leibniz, Newton, Grotius ; 8. Concluding Remarks ; Notes ; Index

[I]t provides a wealth of new insights into the historical and theological background to some of Leibniz's central philosophical concerns and introduces some new ones.

Irena Backus is Professor of Reformation History and Ecclesiastical Latin at the Institute of Reformation History at the University of Geneva.

• Abbreviations ; Introduction ; Part I. Eucharist and Substance ; 1. Transubstantiation and the Problem of Real Presence ; 2. Negotiations with the Reformed and the problem of real presence ; Appendix to Chapter 2: A selection of texts on the negotiations ; Part II. Predestination and Necessity ; 3. Predestination ; 4. Necessity ; 5. Leibniz and Augustine ; Part III. Leibniz the Historian of the Sacred ; 6. Leibniz's Concept of Historia Sacra ; 7. History, Apocalyptic Prophecy, Early Heresies: Leibniz, Newton, Grotius ; 8. Concluding Remarks ; Notes ; Index

[I]t provides a wealth of new insights into the historical and theological background to some of Leibniz's central philosophical concerns and introduces some new ones.

Irena Backus is Professor of Reformation History and Ecclesiastical Latin at the Institute of Reformation History at the University of Geneva.

• Abbreviations ; Introduction ; Part I. Eucharist and Substance ; 1. Transubstantiation and the Problem of Real Presence ; 2. Negotiations with the Reformed and the problem of real presence ; Appendix to Chapter 2: A selection of texts on the negotiations ; Part II. Predestination and Necessity ; 3. Predestination ; 4. Necessity ; 5. Leibniz and Augustine ; Part III. Leibniz the Historian of the Sacred ; 6. Leibniz's Concept of Historia Sacra ; 7. History, Apocalyptic Prophecy, Early Heresies: Leibniz, Newton, Grotius ; 8. Concluding Remarks ; Notes ; Index

[I]t provides a wealth of new insights into the historical and theological background to some of Leibniz's central philosophical concerns and introduces some new ones.