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The Transformation of Natural Philosophy - The Case of Philip Melanchthon (Hardcover, New)
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The Transformation of Natural Philosophy - The Case of Philip Melanchthon (Hardcover, New)
Series: Ideas in Context
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This book proposes that Philip Melanchthon was responsible for
transforming traditional university natural philosophy into a
specifically Lutheran one. Motivated by desire to check civil
disobedience and promote a Lutheran orthodoxy, he created a natural
philosophy based on Aristotle, Galen and Plato, incorporating
contemporary findings of Copernicus and Vesalius. The fields of
astrology, anatomy, botany and mathematics all constituted a
natural philosophy in which Melanchthon wished to demonstrate God's
Providential design in the physical world. Rather than
dichotomizing or synthesizing the two distinct areas of 'science'
and 'religion', Kusukawa advocates the need to look at 'Natural
philosophy' as a discipline quite different from either 'modern
science' or 'religion': a contextual assessment of the implication
of the Lutheran Reformation on university education, particularly
on natural philosophy.
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