This chapter describes how Georges Cuvier employed the Bible in his geology. It explores three claims. These are: that Cuvier treated the Bible as any other book; that Cuvier used the documentary hypothesis of higher Bible criticism, and that Cuvier tried to separate professional geology from scriptural or flood geology and did not use Bible passages as justification for scientific knowledge. The chapter theses are: (i) that Cuvier treated the Bible as a book with divine authority; (ii) that he did not accept higher biblical criticism, and (iii) that he used Bible texts in geology as well as in natural history and history of civilization, but that he was not a scriptural geologist because his usage was qualified by Augustine?s principle of accommodation. Cuvier?s assessment of knowledge about ancient civilizations excludes the historical books in the Old Testament such as the Pentateuch, Kings, and Chronicles.
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Jonathan Edwards and the Discourses of Nature
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Yarchin, William;
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Biblical Interpretation in the Light of the Interpretation of Nature, 1650--1900
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Biblical Hermeneutics and the Sciences, 1700--1900: An Overview
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Conjectures and Speculations: Jean Astruc, Obstetrics, and Biblical Criticism in Eighteenth-Century France
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Tycho Brahe, Caspar Peucer, and Christoph Rothmann on Cosmology and the Bible
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Original Sin, Biblical Hermeneutics, and the Science of Evolution
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Interpreting the Books of Nature and Scripture in Medieval and Early Modern Thought: An Introductory Essay
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Hermeneutics and Natural Knowledge in the Reformers
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The Two Books and Adamic Knowledge: Reading the Book of Nature and Early Modern Strategies for Repairing the Effects of the Fall and of Babel
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Creation, Time, and Biblical Hermeneutics in Early Modern Jewish Philosophy
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Entering “This Sublime and Blessed Amphitheatre”: Contemplation of Nature and Interpretation of the Bible in the Patristic Period
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“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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(2008)
The Hermeneutics of Nature and Scripture in Early Modern Science and Theology
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(2008)
“Not in the Language of the Astronomers”: Isaac Newton, the Scriptures, and the Hermeneutics of Accommodation
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(2008)
Twin Sisters with a Changing Character: How Neo-Calvinists Dealt with the Modern Discrepancy between Bible and Natural Sciences
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(2008)
Natural Knowledge and Textual Meaning in Augustine's Interpretation of Genesis: The Three Functions of Natural Philosophy
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“In the Language of Men”: The Hermeneutics of Accommodation in the Scientific Revolution
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Mandelbrote, Scott;
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Introduction
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(2008)
Nature and Scripture: The Two Witnesses to the Creator
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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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