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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Funkenstein, Amos, author.

Series:

Princeton scholarship online.

Princeton scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and science.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (442 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

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.

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

Notes:

Previous edition: 1986.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780691184265

0691184267

OCLC:

1083583381