Theology and the Scientific Imagination: From the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century, Second Edition...

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Amos Funkenstein Jonathan Sheehan

Theology and the Scientific Imagination

From the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century, Second Edition

Amos Funkenstein, Jonathan Sheehan

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Princeton University Press
13 November 2018

"Theology and the Scientific Imagination is a pioneering work of intellectual history that transformed our understanding of the relationship between Christian theology and the development of science. Distinguished scholar Amos Funkenstein explores the metaphysical foundations of modern science and shows how, by the 1600s, theological and scientific thinking had become almost one. Major figures like Descartes, Leibniz, Newton, and others developed an unprecedented secular theology whose debt to medieval and scholastic thought shaped the trajectory of the scientific revolution. The book ends with Funkenstein's influential analysis of the seventeenth century's ""unprecedented fusion"" of scientific and religious language. Featuring a new foreword, Theology and the Scientific Imagination is a pathbreaking and classic work that remains a fundamental resource for historians and philosophers of science."

By: Amos Funkenstein
Foreword by: Jonathan Sheehan
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm,
ISBN: 9780691181356
ISBN 10: 0691181357
Pages: 464
Publication Date: 13 November 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Amos Funkenstein (193795) was the Koret Professor of Jewish History and University Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Mazer Chair in the History and Philosophy of Science at Tel Aviv University. He authored seven books and more than fifty scholarly articles in four languages, and received the Israel Prize in History, the highest honor bestowed by the State of Israel. Jonathan Sheehan is professor of history and director of the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion at the University of California, Berkeley.

Reviews for Theology and the Scientific Imagination: From the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century, Second Edition

"""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, Review of Metaphysics ""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 ""Powerful. . . . 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, Times Higher Education Supplement"