Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic religions. Up to 1700 /
Evaluates the influences between scriptural exegesis and hermeneutics and the practices of interpretation in natural philosophy and natural sciences. This work aims to provide a historical context for renewed reflection on the role of the hermeneutics of scripture in the development of theological d...
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| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2008.
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| Series: | Brill's series in church history ;
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Table of Contents:
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- List of Illustrations
- Volume 1. Nature and Scripture in the Abrahmic Religions: Up to 1700
- Introductory Essays
- Chapter One: Introduction
- Chapter Two: On the Concept and History of Philosophical Religions
- Part I: 100-800
- Chapter Three: Nature and Scripture : The Two Witnesses to the Creator / Pamela Bright
- Chapter Four: Natural Knowledge and Textual Meaning in Augustine's Interpretation of Genesis : The Three Functions of Natural Philosophy / Kenneth J. Howell
- Chapter Five: Entering "This Sublime and Blessed Amphitheatre" : Contemplation of Nature and Interpretation of the Bible in the Patristic Period / Paul M. Blowers
- Part II: 800-1450
- Chapter Six: Interpreting the Books of Nature and Scripture in Medieval and Early Modern Thought : An Introductory Essay / Charlotte Methuen
- Chapter Seven: Thomas Aquinas on Science, Sacra Doctrina, and Creation / William E. Carroll
- Chapter Eight: Science and Theodicy in Qur'an 2:6/7 / Robert G. Morrison
- Part III: 1450-1700
- Chapter Nine: The Hermeneutics of Nature and Scripture in Early Modern Science and Theology / Kenneth J. Howell
- Chapter Ten: The Two Books and Adamic Knowledge : Reading the Book of Nature and Early Modern Strategies for Repairing the Effects of the Fall and of Babel / James J. Bono
- Chapter Eleven: Hermeneutics and Natural Knowledge in the Reformers / Peter Harrison
- Volume 2. Nature and Scripture in the Abrahmic Religions: Up to 1700
- Chapter Twelve: God, Scripture, and the Rise of Modern Science (1200-1700) : Notes in the Margin of Harrison's Hypothesis / Jitse M. van der Meer and Richard J. Oosterhoff
- Chapter Thirteen: Sacred Philosophy, Secular Theology : The Mosaic Physics of Levinus Lemnius (1505-1568) and Francisco Valles (1524-1592) / Kathleen M. Crowther
- Chapter Fourteen: "Horrible and Blasphemous" : Isaac la Peyrère, Isaac Vossius, and the Emergence of Radical Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Republic / Eric Jorink
- Chapter Fifteen: Thomas Burnet, Biblical Idiom, and Seventeenth-Century Theories of the Earth / Kerry V. Magruder
- Chapter Sixteen: "Not in the Language of Astronomers" : Isaac Newton, the Scriptures, and the Hermeneutics of Accommodation / Stephen D. Snobelen
- Chapter Seventeen: Creation, Time, and Biblical Hermeneutics in Early Modern Jewish Philosophy / T.M. Rudavsky
- Part IV: Copernican Debates and Scripture
- Chapter Eighteen: Tycho Brahe, Caspar Peucer, and Christoph Rothmann on Cosmology and the Bible / Miguel A. Granada
- Chapter Nineteen: Kepler and Melanchthon on the Biblical Arguments against Copernicanism / Peter Barker
- Chapter Twenty: The Debate on the Motion of Earth in the Dutch Republic in the 1650s / Rienk H. Vermij
- Chapter Twenty-One: The Biblical Argument against Copernicanism and the Limitation of Biblical Authority : Ingoli, Foscarini, Galileo, Campanella / Maurice A. Finocchiaro
- Chapter Twenty-Two: "Our Mathematicians Have Learned and Verified This" : Jesuits, Biblical Exegesis, and the Mathematical Sciences in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries / Volker R. Remm
- Chapter Twenty-Three: "In the Language of Men" : The Hermeneutics of Accommodation in the Scientific Revolution / Stephen D. Snobelen
- Index.
