Nature and scripture in the Abrahamic religions : 1700-present / edited by Jitse M. van der Meer, Scott Mandelbrote.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Meer, Jitse M. van der.

Mandelbrote, Scott.

Series:

Brill's series in church history ; d. 36.

Brill's series in church history ; d. 37.

Brill's series in church history, 1572-4107 ; v. 36-37

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible and science--History--Congresses.

Bible and science.

Religion and science--History--Congresses.

Religion and science.

Nature--Religious aspects--Congresses.

Nature.

Bible and evolution--History--Congresses.

Bible and evolution.

Nature in the Bible--Congresses.

Nature in the Bible.

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc--History--Congresses.

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (636 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 J. Matthew Ashley, Robert E. Brown, Elizabeth Chmielewski, Edward B. Davis, Henri Wijnandus de Knijff, Marwa Elshakry, Richard England, Menachem Fisch, George Harinck, Bernhard Kleeberg, Scott Mandelbrote, G. Blair Nelson, Alexei V. Nesteruk, Jitse M. van der Meer, Rob P. W. Visser, and William Yarchin.

Contents:

v. 1. Up to 1700. pt. 1. On the concept and history of philosophical religions / C. Fraenckel

Nature and scripture / P. Bright

Natural knowledge and textual meaning in Augustine's interpretation of Genesis / K.J. Howell

Entering "this sublime and blessed amphitheatre" / P.M. Bowers

Interpreting the books of nature and Scripture in medieval and early modern thought / C. Methuen

Thomas Aquinas on science, sacra doctrina, and creation / W.E. Carroll

Science and theodicy in Quran 2:6/7 / R.G. Morrison

The hermeneutics of nature and Scripture in early modern science and theology / K.J. Howell

The two books and Adamic knowledge / J.J. Bono Herneutics and natural knowledge in the Reformers / P. Harrison

pt. 2. God, Scripture and the rise of modern science (1200-1700) / L.M. van der Meer, R.J. Oosterhoff

Sacred philodophy, secualr theology / K.M. Crowther

"Horrible and blasphemous" / Eric Jorink

Thomas Burnet, biblical idiom, and seventeenth-century theories of the earth / K.V. Magruder

"Not in the language of the astronomers" / S.D. Snobelen

Creation, time, and biblical hermeneutics in early modern Jewish philosophy / T.M. Rudavsky

Tycho Brahe, Caspar Peucer, and Christoph Rothmann on cosmology and the Bible / M.A. Granada

Kepler and Melanchton on the biblical arguments against Copernicanism / P. Barker

The debate of the motion of the earth in the Dutch republic in 1650s / R.H. Vermij

The biblical argument against Copernicanism and the limitation of biblical authority / M.A. Finocchiaro

"Our mathematicians have learned and verified this" / V.R. Remmert

"In the language of men" / S.D. Snobelen

v. 2. 1700-present. pt. 1. Biblical hermeneutics and the sciences, 1700-1900 / S. Mandelbrote

Biblcial interpretation in the light of the interpretation of nature, 1650-1900 / W. Yarchin

Jonathan Edwards and the discourses of nature / R.E. Brown

Georges Cuvier and the use of Scripture in geology / J.M. van der Meer

Ethnology and the "two books" / G. Blair Nelson

Interpreting Scripture, assimilating science / R. England

Scriptural facts and scientific theories / R. England

The will to meaning / B. Kleeberg

pt. 2. Dutch Calvinists and Darwinism, 1900-1960 / Rob P.W. Visser

Twin sisters with a changing character / G. Harinck

The problem of faith and scientific knowledge in Russian religious thought of the ninetweenth-twentieth centuries / A.V. Nesteruk

Original sin, biblical hermeneutics, and the science of evolution / J.M. Ashley -0- Galileo and the garden of Eden / E.B. Davis, E. Chmielewski

A post-Woorld War II response to Karl Barth and Rudolf Bultmann / H. Wijmandus de Kniff

The exegesis of science in twentieth century Arabic interpretations of the Quran / Marwa Elshakry

Judaism and the religious crisis of modern science / Menachem Fisch.

Notes:

Each volume paged continuously and issued in two parts.

V.1-2 are 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.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-282-60262-4

9786612602627

90-474-2524-3

OCLC:

706490856

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004171923.i-618 DOI