Chapter ID: CBB001031826

The Hermeneutics of Nature and Scripture in Early Modern Science and Theology (2008)

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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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Book Meer, Jitse M. van der; Mandelbrote, Scott (2008) Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic Religions: Up to 1700. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Meer, Jitse M. van der
Granada, Miguel A.
Miele, Michele
Clelia Vittoria Crialesi
Andersen, Peter
Snobelen, Stephen David
Concepts
Bible
Hermeneutics
Natural philosophy
Theology
Cosmology
Astronomy
Time Periods
16th century
Renaissance
Medieval
17th century
15th century
Early modern
Places
Italy
Netherlands
Europe
Denmark
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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