The phrase, ?the two witnesses to the Creator? comes from a ?teaching song,? madrashe, of the fourth-century exegete, Ephraem, the Syrian. Any exploration of the differences in Christian and Gnostic understanding of the relationship between God, human beings and the cosmos as a whole begs the question of who is to be identified as Gnostic.? This chapter emphasizes the challenges faced by the early Christian thinkers in respect to the understanding of the world of nature, in all its forms, including the understanding of human nature and its relationship to the otherness of the creation of which they are part. Scripture occupies an absolutely fundamental place in the life of the Christian communities. Using Basil?s Hexaemeron as his guide, Bishop Ambrose of Milan delivered nine sermons around the year 387.
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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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Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic Religions: Up to 1700
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Interpreting the Books of Nature and Scripture in Medieval and Early Modern Thought: An Introductory Essay
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“In the Language of Men”: The Hermeneutics of Accommodation in the Scientific Revolution
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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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Interpreting Scripture, Assimilating Science: Four British and American Christian Evolutionists on the Relationship between Science, the Bible, and Doctrine
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Biblical Interpretation in the Light of the Interpretation of Nature, 1650--1900
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Howell, Kenneth J.;
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Natural Knowledge and Textual Meaning in Augustine's Interpretation of Genesis: The Three Functions of Natural Philosophy
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Meer, Jitse M. van der;
Mandelbrote, Scott;
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Introduction
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Oosterhoff, Richard J.;
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God, Scripture and the Rise of Modern Science (1200--1700): Notes in the Margin of Harrison's Hypothesis
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Thomas Aquinas on Science, Sacra Doctrina, and Creation
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Forming the Saeculum: The Desacralization of Nature and the Ability to Understand It in Augustine's Literal Commentary on Genesis
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Birds, Beasts and Becket: Falconry and Hawking in the Lives and Miracles of St. Thomas Becket
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Rowe, Tamsin;
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“Bless, O Lord, This Fruit of the New Trees”: Liturgy and Nature in England in the Central Middle Ages
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Foot, Sarah;
(2010)
Plenty, Portents and Plague: Ecclesiastical Readings of the Natural World in Early Medieval Europe
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Rudavsky, T. M.;
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Creation, Time, and Biblical Hermeneutics in Early Modern Jewish Philosophy
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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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Georges Cuvier and the Use of Scripture in Geology
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Jonathan Edwards and the Discourses of Nature
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Twin Sisters with a Changing Character: How Neo-Calvinists Dealt with the Modern Discrepancy between Bible and Natural Sciences
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