Galileo and the Church: Political Inquisition Or Critical Dialogue?This book questions the traditional "grand narratives" of science and religion in the seventeenth-century. The known contradictions between the documents of Galileo's "trials" are reread as expressions of the contradictory nature of the Counter Reformation Church. Looking back at the formative years of Tridentine Catholicism demystifies its monolithic and coercive tendencies. Being torn between different cultural orientationsNthe Dominicans' and the Jesuits'Nthe Church was unable to crystallize a coherent attitude towards Galileo's science. |
Contents
1633 | 53 |
The Doctrinaire Phase | 73 |
A Traditional Intellectual Elite | 93 |
An Alternative Intellectual Elite | 110 |
Freedom and Authority in Jesuit Culture | 129 |
The Thomist Boundaries of Jesuit Education | 151 |
A Struggle for Theological | 171 |
From | 201 |
Copernicanism and the Jesuits | 213 |
The Cultural Field of Galileo and the Jesuits | 240 |
The Dispute on Sunspots | 256 |
Epilogue | 293 |
Common terms and phrases
absolute arguments Aristotelian astronomers attempt authority auxiliis Bellarmine Bellarmine's Blancanus boundaries Cardinal Catholic Christopher Scheiner church claimed Clavius Clavius's concept concerning context Copernican Council of Trent Counter Reformation debate decree demonstration dialogue discourse discussion divine doctrine documents Dominicans earth epistemological etiam faith future acts Galilean Galileo affair God's grace Grienberger heretics Holy Office human humanistic hypothetical Ibid injunction Inquisition institutional intellectual elite interpretation Jesuit Jesuit educational Jesuit mathematicians knowledge legitimation letter Letters on Sunspots logical mathematical sciences mathematicians means ment middle science Molina Molinist motion natural philosophy observations Opere opinion Perera phenomena philosophical physical pope position possible practical principles problems quae quod Ratio studiorum reality religious role Rome salvation Scheiner scientific Scriptures secular society Society of Jesus sphere spots status story strategies structure sunspots teaching theologians theology Thomas Thomas de Lemos Thomist tion traditional transgression true truth Venus