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Earthly Adams and Pious Philosophers
A Theological Anthropological Lens to the Sixteenth-Century Astronomical Revolution
Series: - Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science, Volume: 43
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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 Lutherâs 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.
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.
Acknowledgements
Introduction: On Earthly Adams and Pious Philosophers
1 The True Church at Wittenberg University
â1âLutherâs Notion of the True Church
â2âThe True Church in World History
â3âOrigins of Astronomy
â4âSupporting a Bible-Based Theology
â5âKeeping it Pious
â6âScholar-Protectors
2 Lutherâs Anthropology
â1âThe Apple of no Return
â2âKnowledge after the Fall
â3âHumbling the Philosopher
3 Learned Devotion
â1âThe Architectonic Mind
â2âThe Antitype of the Epicurean Philosopher
4 G.J.Rheticus and Fruitful Ignorance
â1âThe Renaissance Restoration of Astronomy
â2âRheticusâs Advocacy of Heliocentrism in Historiography
â3âEpistola de terrae motu: A Theological Anthropological Turn
â4âNarratio prima
â5âThe Historiographical Reintegration of a once lonesome Physical Realist
5 Tycho Braheâs Turn to the Book of Nature
â1âThe Wittenberg Connection
â2âInto the Wrestling Arena
â3âThe Theological Anthropological Turn
â4âThe Geoheliocentric Model of the Universe
6 Caspar Peucerâs Turn to Mosaic Philosophy
â1âPlanetary Models
â2âPeucer as a Mosaic Philosopher
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Introduction: On Earthly Adams and Pious Philosophers
1 The True Church at Wittenberg University
â1âLutherâs Notion of the True Church
â2âThe True Church in World History
â3âOrigins of Astronomy
â4âSupporting a Bible-Based Theology
â5âKeeping it Pious
â6âScholar-Protectors
2 Lutherâs Anthropology
â1âThe Apple of no Return
â2âKnowledge after the Fall
â3âHumbling the Philosopher
3 Learned Devotion
â1âThe Architectonic Mind
â2âThe Antitype of the Epicurean Philosopher
4 G.J.Rheticus and Fruitful Ignorance
â1âThe Renaissance Restoration of Astronomy
â2âRheticusâs Advocacy of Heliocentrism in Historiography
â3âEpistola de terrae motu: A Theological Anthropological Turn
â4âNarratio prima
â5âThe Historiographical Reintegration of a once lonesome Physical Realist
5 Tycho Braheâs Turn to the Book of Nature
â1âThe Wittenberg Connection
â2âInto the Wrestling Arena
â3âThe Theological Anthropological Turn
â4âThe Geoheliocentric Model of the Universe
6 Caspar Peucerâs Turn to Mosaic Philosophy
â1âPlanetary Models
â2âPeucer as a Mosaic Philosopher
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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