| Description |
1 online resource (x, 300 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) |
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Oxford-Warburg studies |
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Oxford-Warburg studies.
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| Summary |
"Physico-theology harnessed the observation of nature to the recognition of God as Creator and to a demonstration of the compatibility of the biblical record with the new science. The new science emerged from the mid-seventeenth century. The present book offers the first study in English of physico-theology on a European scale. Its main argument is that physico-theology not only grew into an intellectual movement across Protestant Europe from the late seventeenth century onward, but that it was substantially different from the mainstream of traditional natural theology. The most prominent protagonists of the movement were virtuosi, especially clergy and physicians. European Physico-theology … in Context investigates in particular two physico-theological genres: the argument from design and diluvialism (i.e. the connection established between the biblical Flood and the existence of fossils). It also looks at practice in the exchange of natural objects, the establishment of collections, and the scientific efforts in taxonomy which they called for. Religion is not seen as an obstacle to the spread of science but as a factor in enhancing the interest of literate and educated people in acquiring natural knowledge. This can be maintained even though physico-theology was above all a Protestant concern owing to the kind of biblicism that the Protestant scientists and virtuosi brought to bear on their study of nature. After the mid-eighteenth century the movement split up into different currents, but in the Netherlands and Britain its mainstream continued to demonstrate a remarkable vitality, surviving well into the nineteenth century"--Publisher's description |
| Notes |
This edition also issued in print: 2022 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed on March 16, 2023) |
| Subject |
God -- Proof, Teleological.
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Nature -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Creation.
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Theology -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
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Theology -- Europe -- History -- 17th century
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creation (doctrinal concept)
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Creation
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God -- Proof, Teleological
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Nature -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Theology
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Europe
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191954917 |
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0191954918 |
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