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Title Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic religions. Up to 1700 / edited by Jitse M. van der Meer, Scott Mandelbrote
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (2 volumes (xvi, 770 pages)) : illustrations
Series Brill's series in church history, 1572-4107 ; v. 36
Brill's series in church history ; v. 36.
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
Summary 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 doctrines that interact with the natural sciences
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History -- Congresses
Bible fast
Subject Bible and science -- History -- Congresses
Religion and science -- History -- Congresses
Nature -- Religious aspects -- Congresses
Bible and evolution -- History -- Congresses
Nature in the Bible -- Congresses
BIBLES -- General.
RELIGION -- Biblical Reference -- General.
RELIGION -- Biblical Reference.
Bible and evolution
Bible and science
Nature in the Bible
Nature -- Religious aspects
Religion and science
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Meer, Jitse M. van der.
Mandelbrote, Scott.
ISBN 9789047425236
9047425235