Galileo
Subtitle: For Copernicanism and for the Church (Studi Galileiani, Vol 3)
Contributors: George V. Coyne (Translator)
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: September 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780268010294
Subjects: Astronomy, Space & Time; Christian theology; European history: c 1500 to c 1750; History of ideas, intellectual history; Mathematics; Italy; Religion And Science; Religion
Description: Considered the paradigm case of the troubled interaction between science and religion, the conflict between Galileo and the Church continues to generate new research and lively debate. Richard J. Blackwell here offers a fresh approach to the Galileo case using as his primary focus the biblical and ecclesiastical issues that were the battleground for the celebrated confrontation.

Blackwell's research in the Vatican manuscript collection and the Jesuit archives in Rome enables him to re-create a vivid picture of the trends and counter-trends that influenced leading Catholic thinkers of the period: the conservative reaction to the Reformation, the role of authority in biblical exegesis and in guarding orthodoxy from the inroads of "unbridled spirits," and the position taken by Cardinal Bellarmine and the Jesuits in attempting to weigh the discoveries of the new science in the context of traditional philosophy and theology.