Inexcusabiles: Salvation and the Virtues of the Pagans in the Early Modern Period (International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, 229)

Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
	References
Part I: The Humanist Background
	Chapter 2: Montaigne’s Gods
		2.1 ‘Among the Likes of Us’
		2.2 ‘Bastard Religions’
		2.3 Excusabilior
		2.4 Devout Worshippers of Idols
		References
	Chapter 3: The Virtues of the Pagans Between Prophecy and Rhetoric in the Work of Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola
		3.1 Introduction
		3.2 The Debate on Prophecy
		3.3 Eloquence, Nature and Imitation
		References
	Chapter 4: Frenzied Sibyls and Most Venerable Prophets: Sebastian Castellio’s Struggle with the Biblical Canon and the Response Within the Reformation Camp
		4.1 Introduction
		4.2 Unearthing the Ancient Past and Christian Truth
		4.3 Castellio’s Sibylline Theology
		4.4 The Sibylline Oracles in Sixteenth-Century Theology Prior to 1545
		4.5 Castellio’s Theology as a Model for Others?
		4.6 Conclusion
		References
Part II: The Theological Debate
	Chapter 5: The Problem of the Pagans and the Number of Elect
		5.1 Questioning God’s justice
		5.2 The saved and the Lost
		5.3 Justifying the Ways of God
		5.4 The Justification Rejected
		References
	Chapter 6: Gentiles in Court. From Superficial Idolatry to Implicit Faith: The Unveiling of Grace and Salvation in the Works of Paschal Rapine de Sainte-Marie (1655–1659)
		6.1 Introduction
		6.2 From Cause to Judgment: A Judicial Model
		6.3 The Investigation, from Implicit Faith to an Unveiling
		6.4 The Time of Grace and Teleology: The Viewpoint of Christian History
		6.5 Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 7: Beatitude and the Scope of Grace: Early ­Modern Morals and the Paradoxes of Felicity
		7.1 Introduction
		7.2 Ecstasy
		7.3 Dualism
		7.4 Theological Qualifications
		7.5 Calvinist Dilemmas
		7.6 A Metaphysical Solution
		7.7 Moral and Existential Forms of Salvation
		References
Part III: The Philosophers and the Unbelievers
	Chapter 8: Bayle and the Question of the Salvation of the Infidels
		8.1 Introduction
		8.2 The Entry ‘Pyrrhon’: Bayle at the School of La Mothe Le Vayer
		8.3 Chossing Between Faith and Reason
		8.4 Independance of Morality from Religion: The Virtuous Atheist
		8.5 The Republic of Letters as a Model of Harmonious Sociability not Based on Religion
		8.6 Final Remarks: The Question of a Secular Society
		8.7 Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 9: The Virtue of the Pagans and the Salvation of the Infidels in the Works of Fénelon
		9.1 Originality of Fénelon
		9.2 The Predestination and the Grace
		9.3 The Testimony of the Pagans
		9.4 Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 10: ‘I Don’t Know Why We Take so Much Pleasure in Thinking That People Are Damned’: Leibniz and the Question of the Salvation of Pagans
		10.1 Introduction
		10.2 Leibniz’s Soteriology
		10.3 How Pagans Can Be Saved
		10.4 The Role of Christ in Leibniz’s Soteriology
		10.5 Conclusion
		References
Part IV: The New Pagans
	Chapter 11: The Truth of the Matter: Observations on Inclusivism and Exclusivism
		11.1 Introduction: Inclusivism vs. Exclusivism and the Problem of Truth
		11.2 The ‘Mosaic Distinction’
		11.3 The Distinction Between Falsehood and Untruth
		11.4 The Early Modern Catholic Environment: A Few Case Studies
		11.5 Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 12: Jesuits and Chinese Atheism: Back and Forth Between Europe and China
		12.1 Introduction
		12.2 Atheism as a Doctrine of Social and Political Life
		12.3 The Atheist’s Indifference and Unreliability
		12.4 The Society’s Change of Course: Atheists Are Not Atheists Anymore
		References
Index