Theology and the Scientific Imagination : : From the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century, Second Edition / / Amos Funkenstein.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DTL Humanities 2020
• VerfasserIn: Funkenstein, Amos,
• TeilnehmendeR: Sheehan, Jonathan.
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (464 p.)

Theology and the Scientific Imagination is a pioneering work of intellectual history that transformed our understanding of the relationship between Christian theology and the development of science. Distinguished scholar Amos Funkenstein explores the metaphysical foundations of modern science and shows how, by the 1600s, theological and scientific thinking had become almost one. Major figures like Descartes, Leibniz, Newton, and others developed an unprecedented secular theology whose debt to medieval and scholastic thought shaped the trajectory of the scientific revolution. The book ends with Funkenstein’s influential analysis of the seventeenth century’s “unprecedented fusion” of scientific and religious language. Featuring a new foreword, Theology and the Scientific Imagination is a pathbreaking and classic work that remains a fundamental resource for historians and philosophers of science.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- FOREWORD -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. GOD'S OMNIPRESENCE, GOD'S BODY, AND FOUR IDEALS OF SCIENCE -- III. DIVINE OMNIPOTENCE AND LAWS OF NATURE -- IV. DIVINE PROVIDENCE AND THE COURSE OF HISTORY -- V. DIVINE AND HUMAN KNOWLEDGE: KNOWING BY DOING -- VI. CONCLUSION: FROM SECULAR THEOLOGY TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX