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Theology and the Scientific Imagination from the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century Paperback – November 30, 1985

by Amos Funkenstein (Author)

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This pioneering work in the history of science, which originated in a series of three Gauss Seminars given at Princeton University in 1984, demonstrated how the roots of the scientific revolution lay in medieval scholasticism. A work of intellectual history addressing the metaphysical foundations of modern science, Theology and the Scientific Imagination raised and transformed the level of discourse on the relations of Christianity and science. Amos Funkenstein was one of the world's most distinguished scholars of Jewish history, medieval intellectual history, and the history of science. Called a genius and Renaissance man by his academic colleagues, Funkenstein was legendary for his ability to recite long literary passages verbatim and from memory in Latin, German, French, Hebrew, Yiddish, and Greek decades after he had last read them. A winner of the coveted Israel Prize for History, Funkenstein was born and raised in Palestine and received his Ph.D. in history and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin in 1965, as one of the first Jewish students to receive a doctorate in Germany after World War II.

Author of seven books and more than fifty scholarly articles in four languages, Funkenstein was at the height of his powers in Theology and the Scientific Imagination, which ends with the author's influential discernment of the seventeenth century's "unprecedented fusion" of scientific and religious language. It remains a fundamental text to historians and philosophers of science.

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"Theology and the Scientific Imagination should be read by every historian of science. I can also hardly imagine a philosopher of science who would remain indifferent to the roots of modern thinking. The reading of this book gives one a deep intellectual pleasure: to follow adventures in ideas is like experiencing the adventures themselves."--Michael Heller, The Review of Metaphysics

"[This work] promises to raise the level and transform the nature of discourse on the relations of Christianity and science. . . . a bold study of ideas . . . bristling with insight and perceptive reinterpretation of familiar episodes in the history of natural philosophy."--David C. Lindberg, Journal of the History of Medicine

"Funkenstein's powerful essay belongs to that genre of intellectual history which has addressed itself to . . . the metaphysical foundations of modern science. . . . Liberation from naive conceptions of historical continuity gives Funkenstein leave to concentrate on a finely nuanced exegesis of those philosophers who fall within his purview. The result is a work of discernment and distinction."--J. H. Brooke, The Times Higher Education Supplement

Paperback: 440 pages
Publisher: Princeton University Press (1986)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0691024251
ISBN-13: 978-0691024257
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.1 x 9 inches
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Jake Keenan

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This is an unsexy but small niche gem. This book traces how early scientific thinking emerged out of theological ideas. It can be awkward with citations of obscure Latin phrases by Vico, More, or Gassendi in addition to the more usual but hardly glamorous Descartes, Newton, or Leibniz. The excitement comes when you realize that these thinkers in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were neither scientists as we understand them today nor theologians of quaint Middle Ages style but were passionately doing something hybrid. The author brings this hybrid world of god attributes (e.g., god's body, god's omnipotence) and a host of then new ways of viewing the world (e.g., the wide applicability of mathematics, the possibility that nature could be the same everywhere, the possibility that improbabilities or even impossibilities could reveal eternal laws in the limit such as the law of inertia) to life. It's a funny world, and Funkenstein covers it well albeit with the funky vocabulary. And the seventeenth century way of thinking is seen as a fantastic world - one that throws light on the present as well as the past while showing the magnitude, difficulty, and the nature of the birth of science. Well worth the work - if you're interested in the origin of science, theology at the cusp of the modern age, or both, or if you want a refreshing view of the really big questions.

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