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

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 th...

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Superior document:Brill's series in church history, v. 36-37
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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.
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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.