Article
ID: CBB000831594

La defensa Católica y el uso de la astrología grecorromana como pauta de corrupción religiosa (2007)

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Astrology Roman Catholicism Paganism Controversies and disputes Lutherans and Lutheranism Religious institutions Science and religion Ancient 17th century 16th century Greece Richeome, Louis

The use of ancient paganism was very frequent in the writings of the Protestant and Catholical polemiests. The setting of analogies that are referred to pagan practices comes to be employed as a useful tool to document, prove and condemn the religious opponents. The aim of this paper is to analyze Richeome's works where we find a detailed commentary on graeco-roman astrology and a very good example of these comparisons between Christianity and the religions of Late Antiquity in order to show Lutheranism as a corrupted, degraded and perverted institution.

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Description On the effort in Catholic polemics (in particular of Jesuit Louis Richeome) to associate Lutheranism with paganism by linking it to Greco-Roman astrology.

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Authors & Contributors
Delli, Eudoxie
Vries, Lyke de
Qizhi, Yanan
Nikolaos Livanos
Almási, Gábor
Wünsch, Thomas
Journals
Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Lias: Sources and Documents Relating to the Early Modern History of Ideas
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Bruniana & Campanelliana: Ricerche Filosofiche e Materiali Storico-testuali
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
University of Connecticut
University of Chicago Press
Sekel Bokförlag
Pennsylvania State University Press
Gütersloher Verlagshaus
Concepts
Science and religion
Lutherans and Lutheranism
Roman Catholicism
Astrology
Roman Catholic Church
Natural philosophy
People
Kircher, Athanasius
Böhme, Jakob
Melanchthon, Philipp
Andreä, Johann Valentin
Spinoza, Baruch
Plattes, Gabriel
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
Renaissance
Early modern
18th century
15th century
Places
Europe
Italy
Greece
Lithuania
Byzantium
South America
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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