An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness

An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness is a work by Henry More, an English poet and philosopher of religion and a prominent member of the Cambridge Platonists. More's religious views, as expressed in this book, aimed to reconcile Christian Platonism with the scientific advancements of the 17th century. He argued against the idea that matter and mind are separate, as proposed by Descartes, believing that such a view could lead to atheism. More posited that God, like individual minds, must be extended in space, and that infinite space itself reveals divine attributes. This concept may have influenced Isaac Newton's ideas about space. More sought to refute the arguments of Thomas Hobbes, who claimed that theism was impossible because the human mind cannot comprehend immaterial substances.1