Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic religions : : up to 1700 / / edited by Jitse M. van der Meer, Scott Mandelbrote.

• Superior document: Brill's series in church history, v. 36-37
• TeilnehmendeR: Meer, Jitse M. van der.; Mandelbrote, Scott.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's series in church history ; d. 36.; Brill's series in church history ; d. 37.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (800 p.)
• Notes: Each volume paged continuously and issued in two parts.; Publication is in part the result of a conference with the title Interpreting Nature and Scripture: History of a Dialogue held at Redeemer University College in 2005.

The four companion volumes of Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic Religions contribute to a contextual evaluation of the mutual influences between scriptural exegesis and hermeneutics on the one hand and practices or techniques of interpretation in natural philosophy and the natural sciences on the other. We seek to raise the low profile this theme has had both in the history of science and in the history of biblical interpretation. Furthermore, questions about the interpretation of scripture continue to be provoked by current theological reflection on scientific theories. We also seek 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. Contributors are Peter Barker, Paul M. Blowers, James J. Bono, Pamela Bright, William E. Carroll, Kathleen M. Crowther, Maurice A. Finocchiaro, Carlos Fraenkel, Miguel A. Granada, Peter Harrison, Kenneth J. Howell, Eric Jorink, Kerry V. Magruder, Scott Mandelbrote, Charlotte Methuen, Robert Morrison, Richard J. Oosterhoff, Volker R. Remmert, T. M. Rudavsky, Stephen D. Snobelen, Jitse M. van der Meer, and Rienk H. Vermij.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / S.H. Mandelbrote and J.M. Van Der Meer -- Chapter One. Introduction / Jitse M. Van Der Meer and Scott Mandelbrote -- Chapter Two. On The Concept And History Of Philosophical Religions / Carlos Fraenkel -- 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 -- 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 Qurʾan 2:6/7 / Robert G. Morrison -- 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 -- Preliminary Material / S.H. Mandelbrote and J.M. Van Der Meer -- 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 -- 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 Mathematicals / S.H. Mandelbrote and J.M. Van Der Meer -- Chapter Twenty-Three. \'In The Language Of Men\': The Hermeneutics Of Accommodation In The Scientific Revolution / Stephen D. Snobelen -- Index / S.H. Mandelbrote and J.M. Van Der Meer.