Chapter ID: CBB001031823

Interpreting the Books of Nature and Scripture in Medieval and Early Modern Thought: An Introductory Essay (2008)

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This chapter discusses the relationship between interpretations of nature and of Scripture during the high medieval and early modern periods, that is from the twelfth century until the dawn of the seventeenth. It argues that this relationship must be seen as one expression of the more fundamental relationship between knowledge of God and knowledge of the world, and of the shifting understanding of how faith might be informed by reason, or theology by philosophy. Scholasticism was the method of thinking and structuring knowledge which governed most academic thought from the mid-eleventh century until into the sixteenth. It will already be apparent that the contribution of Aristotelian philosophy was of particular importance in articulating knowledge about God and determining possible approaches to nature. Biblical humanism applied humanist methods to Scripture.

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Authors & Contributors
Meer, Jitse M. van der
Mandelbrote, Scott
Howell, Kenneth James
Clelia Vittoria Crialesi
Berns, Andrew
Rudavsky, T. M.
Concepts
Bible
Hermeneutics
Natural philosophy
Theology
Christianity
Nature
Time Periods
Medieval
Renaissance
16th century
Early modern
17th century
15th century
Places
England
United States
Netherlands
Italy
Greece
Rome (Italy)
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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