Book ID: CBB001550769

Physica sacra: Wunder, Naturwissenschaft und historischer Schriftsinn zwischen Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit (2013)

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Roling, Bernd (Author)


Brill


Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: x + 485 pp.
Language: German

Was it a whale or a shark that devoured Jonah? And how were the walls of Jericho brought down? In his wide-ranging study, 'Physica Sacra', Bernd Roling shows that the natural sciences and biblical exegesis have not always stood in stark opposition to one another. From the high Middle Ages, Bible commentators such as Albertus Magnus and Alonso Tostado made extensive use of the knowledge available in their times about zoology, medicine and astronomy to explain the wonders of revelation and to defend their historical basis. Even with the advent of modern Biblical criticism and in the age of Enlightenment, as is shown here in detail, their arguments were valid enough to refute critics like Spinoza, Isaac de la Peyrère and Voltaire.

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Review Touber, Jetze (2015) Review of "Physica sacra: Wunder, Naturwissenschaft und historischer Schriftsinn zwischen Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 174-175). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Gensini, Stefano
Fedor Benevich
Diana Quarantotto
Casini, Paolo
Ben Halliburton
Zimmermann, Albert
Concepts
Natural philosophy
Philosophy
Physics
Zoology
Animals
Aristotelianism
Time Periods
17th century
Medieval
Renaissance
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16th century
Early modern
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Europe
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