The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural ScienceIn this book, Dr. Harrison examines the role played by the bible in the emergence of natural science. He shows how both the contents of the bible, and more particularly the way it was interpreted, had a profound influence on conceptions of nature from the third century to the seventeenth. The rise of modern science is linked to the Protestant approach to texts, an approach which spelt an end to the symbolic world of the middle ages, and established the conditions for the scientific investigation and technological exploitation of nature. |
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Contents
Worlds visible and invisible | 11 |
THE THREE SENSES | 15 |
WORDS AND THINGS | 28 |
Sensible signs and spoken words | 34 |
THE DISCOVERY OF NATURE | 39 |
THE WHOLE AND THE PARTS | 44 |
RESTORING LOST LIKENESSES | 56 |
The two reformations | 64 |
The purpose of nature | 161 |
DIVINE DESIGNS AND HUMAN UTILITIES | 169 |
THE CENTRE OF THE UNIVERSE | 177 |
THE NATURAL WORLD AND THE MORAL ORDER | 185 |
GOD AND THE BOOK OF NATURE | 193 |
Eden restored | 205 |
THE FALL | 211 |
THE DELUGE AND CONFUSION OF TONGUES | 222 |
TEXTS AND THE EMPIRICAL WORLD | 78 |
NEW WORLDS | 82 |
CORRUPT TEXTS AND REFORMED RELIGION | 92 |
THE LITERAL SENSE AND THE MATERIAL WORLD | 107 |
Rereading the two books | 121 |
TYPOLOGY AND ACCOMMODATION | 129 |
THE COSMOLOGY OF MOSES | 138 |
THE SCIENCE OF THE LAST THINGS | 147 |
REVERSING THE CURSE | 226 |
REPLANTING THE GARDEN | 235 |
LEARNING THE LANGUAGE OF NATURE | 249 |
Conclusion | 266 |
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| Title | The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science Issue 10 of ISSR Library |
| Author | Peter Harrison |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint, revised |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2001 |
| ISBN | 0521000963, 9780521000963 |
| Length | 313 pages |
| Subjects | › › Religion / Christian Theology / General Religion / Christianity / General Religion / Theology |
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