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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (464 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691181356
  • 9780691184265
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 231.4 23
LOC classification:
  • BT130 .F86 2018
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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.

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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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