Inexcusabiles: Salvation and the Virtues of the Pagans in the Early Modern Period

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Montaigne’s Gods

Chapter 3 The Virtues of the Pagans Between Prophecy and Rhetoric in the Work of Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola

Chapter 4 Frenzied Sibyls and Most Venerable Prophets: Sebastian Castellio’s Struggle with the Biblical Canon and the Response Within the Reformation Camp

Chapter 5 The Problem of the Pagans and the Number of Elect

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)

Chapter 7 Beatitude and the Scope of Grace: Early Modern Morals and the Paradoxes of Felicity

Chapter 8 Bayle and the Question of the Salvation of the Infidels

Chapter 9 The Virtue of the Pagans and the Salvation of the Infidels in the Works of Fénelon

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

Chapter 12 Jesuits and Chinese Atheism: Back and Forth Between Europe and China