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- catalog abstract ""How do we resolve conflicts when fundamental sources of knowledge and belief - such as science and theology - are involved? In God's Two Books, Kenneth Howell offers a historical analysis of how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century astronomers and theologians in Northern Protestant Europe used science and religion to challenge and support one another. Howell reveals that the cosmological schemes developed during this era remain monumental solutions to the enduring problem of how theological interpretation and empirical investigation interact with one another." "The central argument of this compelling book is that the use of the Bible in early modern cosmology is considerably more complex and subtle than has previously been recognized. Drawing on the writings of Lutheran and Calvinist astronomers, natural philosophers, and theologians, Howell analyzes several underlying patterns of interpretation which affected how these historical figures viewed the mutual interaction of the books of nature and Scripture. He argues that while they differed on how the disciplines of astronomy, physics, and theology should relate to one another, most thinkers shared the common goal of finding and explaining the true system of the universe."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12358408.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""How do we resolve conflicts when fundamental sources of knowledge and belief - such as science and theology - are involved? In God's Two Books, Kenneth Howell offers a historical analysis of how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century astronomers and theologians in Northern Protestant Europe used science and religion to challenge and support one another. Howell reveals that the cosmological schemes developed during this era remain monumental solutions to the enduring problem of how theological interpretation and empirical investigation interact with one another." "The central argument of this compelling book is that the use of the Bible in early modern cosmology is considerably more complex and subtle than has previously been recognized. Drawing on the writings of Lutheran and Calvinist astronomers, natural philosophers, and theologians, Howell analyzes several underlying patterns of interpretation which affected how these historical figures viewed the mutual interaction of the books of nature and Scripture. He argues that while they differed on how the disciplines of astronomy, physics, and theology should relate to one another, most thinkers shared the common goal of finding and explaining the true system of the universe."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-304) and index.".
- catalog description "Reading the heavens and Scripture in early modern science -- Copernicus, the Bible and the Wittenberg orbit -- Geoheliocentrism and the Bible : Brahe, Peucer and Rothmann -- Kepler, cosmology and the Bible -- Copernican cosmology, cartesianism and the Bible in the Netherlands -- Copernicanism and the Bible in Catholic Europe.".
- catalog extent "viii, 319 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0268010455 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press,".
- catalog subject "261.5/5/09409031 21".
- catalog subject "BL240. .H76 2002".
- catalog subject "Religion and science.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Reading the heavens and Scripture in early modern science -- Copernicus, the Bible and the Wittenberg orbit -- Geoheliocentrism and the Bible : Brahe, Peucer and Rothmann -- Kepler, cosmology and the Bible -- Copernican cosmology, cartesianism and the Bible in the Netherlands -- Copernicanism and the Bible in Catholic Europe.".
- catalog title "God's two books : Copernican cosmology and biblical interpretation in early modern science / Kenneth J. Howell.".
- catalog type "text".