Earthly Adams and Pious Philosophers : A Theological Anthropological Lens to the Sixteenth-Century Astronomical Revolution /
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 canonica...
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Language: English
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2025.
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Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science ;
43.
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Call Number: D53.A2
- 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.