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Theology and the Scientific Imagination
From the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century, Second Edition
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This book is ideal for historians, philosophers of science, and readers interested in the intellectual history of science and religion in the early modern period.
Theology and the Scientific Imagination is a pioneering work of intellectual history that transformed our understanding of the relationship between Christian theology and the development of science. Distinguished scholar Amos Funkenstein explores the metaphysical foundations of modern science and shows how, by the 1600s, theological and scientific
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Theology and the Scientific Imagination is a pioneering work of intellectual history that transformed our understanding of the relationship between Christian theology and the development of science. Distinguished scholar Amos Funkenstein explores the metaphysical foundations of modern science and shows how, by the 1600s, theological and scientific thinking had become almost one.
Major figures like Descartes, Leibniz, Newton, and others developed an unprecedented secular theology whose debt to medieval and scholastic thought shaped the trajectory of the scientific revolution. The book concludes with Funkenstein's influential analysis of the seventeenth century's "unprecedented fusion" of scientific and religious language.
Featuring a new foreword, Theology and the Scientific Imagination is a pathbreaking and classic work that remains a fundamental resource for historians and philosophers of science.
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Theology and the Scientific Imagination has been praised for its bold and insightful reinterpretation of the history of natural philosophy. Michael Heller described it as essential reading for historians and philosophers of science, offering deep intellectual pleasure in tracing the evolution of ideas. David C. Lindberg highlighted its perceptiveness and originality, while J.H. Brooke commended its nuanced exegesis and scholarly distinction.
Book Details
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ISBN: 9780691181356
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 13 November 2018
Country: United States
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Edition: 2nd edition
Contributors:
- Foreword by Jonathan Sheehan
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 155.0mm
Height: 235.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 464
About the Author
Amos Funkenstein (193795) was the Koret Professor of Jewish History and University Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Mazer Chair in the History and Philosophy of Science at Tel Aviv University. He authored seven books and more than fifty scholarly articles in four languages, and received the Israel Prize in History, the highest honor bestowed by the State of Israel. Jonathan Sheehan is professor of history and director of the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion at the University of California, Berkeley.
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