Conway rejected monistic materialism because it flattened the distinction between God and creation.

Evidence

Anne Conway radically opposed Hobbes and Spinoza, both of whom had reduced nature to a monistic materialism that denied any distinction between God and his creation. Like Conway, they accepted the interconvertibility of all things, but their materialism admitted no distinction between lower and higher forms and saw God as interconvertible with corporeal species. To Conway, sense and knowledge were far more noble than the Hobbesian reduction to the mechanical motion of corpuscles would allow. — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 966

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• XREF: connects to: Conway rejected mechanistic motion by affirming the whole creation is vitally alive. — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 966