Focusing on the works of a select group of Lutheran astronomers in the Wittenberg sphere of influence, Earthly Adams and Pious Philosophers establishes a theological anthropological blueprint that echoed in their contributions to the sixteenth-century astronomical revolution. In challenging canonical cosmology and its Scholastic advocates, Georg Joachim Rheticus, Tycho Brahe, and Caspar Peucer invoked intellectual piety and a pessimist epistemology tailored to Luther’s understanding of man after the Fall. The fruitful ignorance to which they submitted can be seen as part of a larger view of the self and the world, the astronomer, academic scholar and university, that was essentially theologically informed.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9789004349018
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-90-04-34901-8
- Verlag: Brill
- Erscheinungstermin: 19.12.2024
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2024
- Serie: Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science
- Produktform: Gebunden
- Seiten: 225
- Format (B x H): 155 x 235 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
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