Religio Medici

Positional characteristics and functions of the epistemic discourse markers in Early New English theological discourse

“…(2) I believe, that all this true, which, indeed, my reason would persuade me to be false: and this, I think, is no vulgar part of faith, to believe a thing not only above, but contrary to, reason, and against the arguments of our proper senses [8].…”

“…(3) I believe, besides Zoroaster, there were divers others that writ before Moses; who, notwithstanding have suffered the common fate of time [8].…”

Love and human relationships: Readings from Jeremy Taylor

“…In his great work the Religio Medici (1642), the natural historian and moralist Sir Thomas Browne (1605-82) carefully articulates the natural beauty of all things, read within the second of the 'two books from whence I collect my divinity'. 6 This is, of course, the book of Nature, 'that universal and publick Manuscript, that lies expans'd unto the Eyes of all'. Browne celebrates the beauty and harmony of all things under God: I hold there is a general beauty in the works of God, and therefore no deformity in any kind of species of creature whatsoever: I cannot tell by what Logick we call a Toad, a Bear, or an Elephant ugly, they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express those actions of their inward forms.…”

“…To speak yet more narrowly, there was never anything ugly or misshapen, but the Chaos. 7 In the Book of Nature Browne sees yet the order of the pre-lapsarian world created by God, towards which, in Christ and by the exercise of reason all yet tends. Thomas Traherne, in his work Christian Ethicks: Or, Divine Morality (1675), extends this to perceiving that 'Natural Goodnesse [which] is the Aptitude of Corporeal Beings', being free to live the deified life in Christ as an intentional life of striving for moral goodness which exceeds even natural goodness in the pursuit of divine goodness.…”

Suicide et technique thérapeutique de résolution de problèmes

“…Sir Thomas Browne en 1642 semble avoir é té le premier à parler de « suicide » dans son Religio medici (1963) [3]. Il a cré é le mot à partir du latin sui (de soi) et caedere (tuer).…”