Religio Medici (Annotated)

Religio Medici (The Religion of a Physician) is Thomas Browne's searching meditation on faith, reason, mortality, and the mysteries of creation. Written in a richly Latinate, baroque prose that moves by paradox, aphorism, and learned allusion, the book fuses private confession with philosophical essay. In the unsettled religious climate of seventeenth-century England, Browne offers neither polemic...