The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science

Informationen zum Autor Peter Harrison is Professor of Philosophy at Bond University in Australia. He has published widely in the area of the history of ideas and in particular on philosophy and religion in the early modern period. He is the author of Religion and the Religions in the English Enlightenment (Cambridge, 1990). Klappentext An examination of the role played by the Bible in the emergence of natural science. Zusammenfassung Peter Harrison examines the role played by the Bible in the emergence of natural science. He shows how both the contents of the Bible! and more particularly the way it was interpreted! had a profound influence on conceptions of nature from the third century to the seventeenth. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Worlds visible and invisible; 2. Sensible signs and spoken words; 3. The two reformations; 4. Re-reading the two books; 5. The purpose of nature; 6. Eden restored; Conclusion; References; Index.

Autorentext
Peter Harrison is Professor of Philosophy at Bond University in Australia. He has published widely in the area of the history of ideas and in particular on philosophy and religion in the early modern period. He is the author of Religion and the Religions in the English Enlightenment (Cambridge, 1990).

Klappentext
An examination of the role played by the Bible in the emergence of natural science.


Zusammenfassung
Peter Harrison examines the role played by the Bible in the emergence of natural science. He shows how both the contents of the Bible, and more particularly the way it was interpreted, had a profound influence on conceptions of nature from the third century to the seventeenth.

Inhalt
Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Worlds visible and invisible; 2. Sensible signs and spoken words; 3. The two reformations; 4. Re-reading the two books; 5. The purpose of nature; 6. Eden restored; Conclusion; References; Index.

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