A comprehensive history of biblical hermeneutics with respect to nature between ca. 1500 and 1700 is still to be written. This chapter illustrates the diverse uses of the Bible in a natural-philosophical context. It suggests that the hermeneutical variety and to some extent confusion, may be due to a deeply felt need for a new natural philosophy which of course had to be consonant with Genesis. The revolution in astronomy that occurred over two centuries lay precisely in a move from this bifurcated view to one where mathematical and physical reality were seen as united. The diversity and complexity of the exegetical arguments evident in the primary sources has convinced me that this analysis is too superficial. Historians of hermeneutics would like to know how interpretation has changed or not changed over the roughly two thousand years of interpretation since the formation of the Christian Bible.
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Harrison, Peter;
(2008)
Hermeneutics and Natural Knowledge in the Reformers
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Bono, James J.;
(2008)
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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Barker, Peter;
(2008)
Kepler and Melanchthon on the Biblical Arguments against Copernicanism
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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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Carroll, William E.;
(2008)
Thomas Aquinas on Science, Sacra Doctrina, and Creation
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Higashi, Shin;
(2010)
The Continuity and Diversity of the Traditional Cosmos: Natural Philosophy and Mathematics in the Society of Jesus
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Granada, Miguel A.;
(2008)
Tycho Brahe, Caspar Peucer, and Christoph Rothmann on Cosmology and the Bible
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Meer, Jitse M. van der;
Mandelbrote, Scott;
(2008)
Introduction
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Crowther, Kathleen M.;
(2008)
Sacred Philosophy, Secular Theology: The Mosaic Physics of Levinus Lemnius (1505--1568) and Francisco Valles (1524--1592)
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Granada, Miguel A.;
(2009)
Novelties in the Heavens between 1572 and 1604 and Kepler's Unified View of Nature
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Shank, Michael H.;
(2009)
Setting Up Copernicus? Astronomy and Natural Philosophy in Giambattista Capuano da Manfredonia's Expositio on the Sphere
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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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Brown, Robert E.;
(2008)
Jonathan Edwards and the Discourses of Nature
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Howell, Kenneth J.;
(2008)
Natural Knowledge and Textual Meaning in Augustine's Interpretation of Genesis: The Three Functions of Natural Philosophy
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Michele Miele;
(2005)
Le certezze anticopernicane di Paolo Minerva e la le loro radici
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Clelia Vittoria Crialesi;
(2016)
Le opere dei sei giorni: artimetica ed esegesi secundum physicam in Teodorico di Chartres
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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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Oosterhoff, Richard J.;
Meer, Jitse M. van der;
(2008)
God, Scripture and the Rise of Modern Science (1200--1700): Notes in the Margin of Harrison's Hypothesis
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Peter Andersen;
(2014)
De la devise de Bruno à la mort de Tycho Brahe
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Finocchiaro, Maurice A.;
(2008)
The Biblical Argument against Copernicanism and the Limitation of Biblical Authority: Ingoli, Foscarini, Galileo, Campanella
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