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Article: The Religious Foundations of Francis Bacon's Thought.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 22, 2007
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Stephen A. McKnight. The Religious Foundations of Francis Bacon's Thought.
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006. xii + 194 pp. index. illus. bibl. $37.50. ISBN: 0-8262-1609-9.
The title of Stephen McKnight's book raises a question. Anyone who has read Francis Bacon's writings will have noticed strong religious elements, but did they amount to "foundations"? Bacon was undoubtedly an orthodox Christian who often quoted biblical texts and drew on both Old and New Testament ideas and images. But his orientation was this-worldly, and his often-expressed goal was to improve the quality of life in this world. Perhaps a more suitable metaphor would be ...