This chapter explores Aurelius Augustine?s commentaries on Genesis to elucidate the fundamental structures of his thought in interpreting the creation story. It focuses on Augustine in the fifth century rather than on how he was interpreted later, but such a historical limitation may nevertheless afford a sharper picture of his hermeneutics for future comparison with the use made of him in the context of scientific debate. The chapter also explores specifically Augustine?s uses of natural truths and philosophy in his interpretation of Genesis to discern patterns of interaction between natural knowledge and the biblical text. Augustine tells us in the Confessions (5. 11.21) that when he was a Manichee he did not think the Old Testament could be defended against the Manichean criticisms.
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Interpreting the Books of Nature and Scripture in Medieval and Early Modern Thought: An Introductory Essay
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Carroll, William E.;
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Thomas Aquinas on Science, Sacra Doctrina, and Creation
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Harrison, Peter;
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Hermeneutics and Natural Knowledge in the Reformers
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The Hermeneutics of Nature and Scripture in Early Modern Science and Theology
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Meer, Jitse M. van der;
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Introduction
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Bright, Pamela;
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Nature and Scripture: The Two Witnesses to the Creator
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Oosterhoff, Richard J.;
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Granada, Miguel A.;
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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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Georges Cuvier and the Use of Scripture in Geology
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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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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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“Not in the Language of the Astronomers”: Isaac Newton, the Scriptures, and the Hermeneutics of Accommodation
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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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Brown, Robert E.;
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Jonathan Edwards and the Discourses of Nature
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“In the Language of Men”: The Hermeneutics of Accommodation in the Scientific Revolution
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