Earthly Adams and Pious Philosophers

A Theological Anthropological Lens to the Sixteenth-Century Astronomical Revolution
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-34901-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 43, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 463 g

Reihe: Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science

Focusing on the works of a select group of Lutheran astronomers in the Wittenberg sphere of influence, Earthly Adams and Pious Philosophers recognizes in their response to the sixteenth-century astronomical revolution a theological anthropological pattern. In challenging traditional cosmology and its Scholastic advocates, Georg Joachim Rheticus, Tycho Brahe, and Caspar Peucer invoked intellectual piety and a pessimist epistemology that were tailored to Luther’s understanding of man after the Fall. The fruitful ignorance that they accepted and advocated may be seen as part of a larger view of the self and the world as well as of the figure of the astronomer, the academic scholar and the university, which was of an essentially theological nature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roelants, Nienke

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction: On Earthly Adams and Pious Philosophers

1 The True Church at Wittenberg University

1 Luther’s Notion of the True Church

2 The True Church in World History

3 Origins of Astronomy

4 Supporting a Bible-Based Theology

5 Keeping it Pious

6 Scholar-Protectors

2 Luther’s Anthropology

1 The Apple of no Return

2 Knowledge after the Fall

3 Humbling the Philosopher

3 Learned Devotion

1 The Architectonic Mind

2 The Antitype of the Epicurean Philosopher

4 G.J.Rheticus and Fruitful Ignorance

1 The Renaissance Restoration of Astronomy

2 Rheticus’s Advocacy of Heliocentrism in Historiography

3 Epistola de terrae motu: A Theological Anthropological Turn

4 Narratio prima

5 The Historiographical Reintegration of a once lonesome Physical Realist

5 Tycho Brahe’s Turn to the Book of Nature

1 The Wittenberg Connection

2 Into the Wrestling Arena

3 The Theological Anthropological Turn

4 The Geoheliocentric Model of the Universe

6 Caspar Peucer’s Turn to Mosaic Philosophy

1 Planetary Models

2 Peucer as a Mosaic Philosopher

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nienke Roelants, Ph.D. (1982), KU Leven, has published on early modern history of science, university history and religious history. She currently holds positions as managing director of an academic publishing house and as publisher.