This chapter describes how from the eighteenth to the dawn of the twentieth century biblical interpretation continued the loss of relevance for the interpretation of nature that had begun with the Copernican revolution. Efforts to make the history depicted in the Bible intelligible greatly attenuated if not eliminated Scripture?s relevance for understanding the history of Earth. This is attributed to fundamental changes in ideas of history and of revelation that shaped the answer to the question: what kind of history does the Bible contain? The chapter reviews these changes as they occurred in attempts to make the history of Earth, of the Bible, and of religion intelligible and it describes the standards of intelligibility applied. Offered from a perspective focused on the history of biblical interpretation, the chapter aims to provide general background for more detailed studies of the relationships between the interpretation of nature and Scripture during this period.
...MoreBook Meer, Jitse M. van der; Mandelbrote, Scott (2008) Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic Religions: 1700--Present.
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Mandelbrote, Scott;
(2008)
Biblical Hermeneutics and the Sciences, 1700--1900: An Overview
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Blowers, Paul M.;
(2008)
Entering “This Sublime and Blessed Amphitheatre”: Contemplation of Nature and Interpretation of the Bible in the Patristic Period
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Bright, Pamela;
(2008)
Nature and Scripture: The Two Witnesses to the Creator
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Rudavsky, T. M.;
(2008)
Creation, Time, and Biblical Hermeneutics in Early Modern Jewish Philosophy
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Remmert, Volker R.;
(2008)
“Our Mathematicians Have Learned and Verified This”: Jesuits, Biblical Exegesis, and the Mathematical Sciences in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries
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Meer, Jitse M. van der;
(2008)
Georges Cuvier and the Use of Scripture in Geology
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Snobelen, Stephen D.;
(2008)
“Not in the Language of the Astronomers”: Isaac Newton, the Scriptures, and the Hermeneutics of Accommodation
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Snobelen, Stephen D.;
(2008)
“In the Language of Men”: The Hermeneutics of Accommodation in the Scientific Revolution
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Brown, Robert E.;
(2008)
Jonathan Edwards and the Discourses of Nature
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Meer, Jitse M. van der;
Mandelbrote, Scott;
(2008)
Introduction
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Harinck, George;
(2008)
Twin Sisters with a Changing Character: How Neo-Calvinists Dealt with the Modern Discrepancy between Bible and Natural Sciences
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Scott Gerard Prinster;
(2021)
Reading the Bible Scientifically: Science and the Rise of Modern Biblical Criticism in the Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century United States
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England, Richard;
(2008)
Interpreting Scripture, Assimilating Science: Four British and American Christian Evolutionists on the Relationship between Science, the Bible, and Doctrine
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Article
Renate Dürr;
(2017)
Mapping the Miracle: Empirical Approaches in the Exodus Debate of the Eighteenth Century
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Thesis
Lin, Yii-Jan Chen;
(2014)
The Erotic Life of Manuscripts: A History of New Testament Textual Criticism and the Biological Sciences
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Kempe, Michael;
(2006)
Sermons in Stone: Johann Jacob Scheuchzer's Concept of the Book of Nature and the Physics of the Bible
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Granada, Miguel A.;
(2008)
Tycho Brahe, Caspar Peucer, and Christoph Rothmann on Cosmology and the Bible
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Ashley, J. M.;
(2008)
Original Sin, Biblical Hermeneutics, and the Science of Evolution
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Methuen, Charlotte;
(2008)
Interpreting the Books of Nature and Scripture in Medieval and Early Modern Thought: An Introductory Essay
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Harrison, Peter;
(2008)
Hermeneutics and Natural Knowledge in the Reformers
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