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Title Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic religions / edited by Jitse M. van der Meer, Scott Mandelbrote
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (2 volumes in 4 (770 pages, 603 pages)) : illustrations
Series Brill's series in church history, 1572-4107 ; v. 36-37
Brill's series in church history ; d. 36.
Brill's series in church history ; d. 37.
Contents [v. 1]. Up to 1700. pt. 1. On the concept and history of philosophical religions / C. Fraenckel -- Nature and scripture / P. Bright -- Natural knowledge and textual meaning in Augustine's interpretation of Genesis / K.J. Howell -- Entering "this sublime and blessed amphitheatre" / P.M. Bowers -- Interpreting the books of nature and Scripture in medieval and early modern thought / C. Methuen -- Thomas Aquinas on science, sacra doctrina, and creation / W.E. Carroll -- Science and theodicy in Qurʼān 2:6/7 / R.G. Morrison -- The hermeneutics of nature and Scripture in early modern science and theology / K.J. Howell -- The two books and Adamic knowledge / J.J. Bono -- Hermeneutics and natural knowledge in the Reformers / P. Harrison -- pt. 2. God, Scripture and the rise of modern science (1200-1700) / L.M. van der Meer, R.J. Oosterhoff -- Sacred philosophy, secular theology / K.M. Crowther -- "Horrible and blasphemous" / E. Jorink -- Thomas Burnet, biblical idiom, and seventeenth-century theories of the earth / K.V. Magruder -- "Not in the language of astronomers" / S.D. Snobelen -- Creation, time, and biblical hermeneutics in early modern Jewish philosophy / T.M. Rudavsky -- Tycho Brahe, Caspar Peucer, and Christoph Rothmann on cosmology and the Bible / M.A. Granada -- Kepler and Melanchthon on the biblical arguments against Copernicanism / P. Barker -- The debate on the motion of the earth in the Dutch Republic in 1650s / R.H. Vermij -- The biblical argument against Copernicanism and the limitation of biblical authority / M.A. Finocchiaro -- "Our mathematicians have learned and verified this" / V.R. Remmert -- "In the language of men" / S.D. Snobelen
[v. 2]. 1700-present. pt. 1. Biblical hermeneutics and the sciences, 1700-1900 / S. Mandelbrote -- Biblical interpretation in the light of the interpretation of nature, 1650-1900 / W. Yarchin -- Jonathan Edwards and the discourses of nature / R.E. Brown -- Georges Cuvier and the use of Scripture in geology / J.M. van der Meer -- Ethnology and the "two books" / G.B. Nelson -- Interpreting Scripture, assimilating science / R. England -- Scriptural facts and scientific theories / R. England -- The will to meaning / B. Kleeberg -- pt. 2. Dutch Calvinists and Darwinism, 1900-1960 / R.P.W. Visser -- Twin sisters with a changing character / G. Harinck -- The problem of faith and scientific knowledge in Russian religious thought of the nineteenth-twentieth centuries / A.V. Nesteruk -- Original sin, biblical hermeneutics, and the science of evolution / J.M. Ashley -- Galileo and the garden of Eden / E.B. Davis, E. Chmielewski -- A post-World War II response to Karl Barth and Rudolf Bultmann / H.W. de Knijff -- The exegesis of science in twentieth-century Arabic interpretations of the Qurʼān / M. Elshakry -- Judaism and the religious crisis of modern science / M. Fisch
Summary Evaluates the mutual influences between scriptural exegesis and hermeneutics and practices of interpretation in natural philosophy and natural sciences. This work aims to provide a historical context for renewed reflection on the role of the hermeneutics of scripture in the development of theological doctrines that interact with natural sciences
Analysis Interpreting nature
Scripture
Notes Each volume paged continuously and issued in two parts
Publication is in part the result of a conference with the title Interpreting Nature and Scripture: History of a Dialogue held at Redeemer University College in 2005
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History -- Congresses
Bible. fast (OCoLC)fst01356024
Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History. nli
Subject Bible and science -- History -- Congresses
Religion and science -- History -- Congresses
Nature -- Religious aspects -- Congresses
Bible and evolution -- History -- Congresses
Nature in the Bible -- Congresses
Bible and evolution.
Bible and science.
Nature in the Bible.
Nature -- Religious aspects.
Religion and science.
Bible and science.
Religion and science -- History.
Nature -- Religious aspects.
Bible and evolution.
Nature in the Bible.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Form Electronic book
Author Meer, Jitse M. van der.
Mandelbrote, Scott.
ISBN 9789047425243
9047425243