Galileo’s Ghost and the haunting of the Protestant (and scholarly) mind
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16768964 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard P Tison (Northeast Lakeview College, San Antonio, TX, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 249-272 |
| Publication date | 2019-09-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Nineteenth Century History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1466-4658 • E-ISSN: 1743-7903 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14664658.2019.1693684 |
| OpenAlex | W2991327767 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
This paper examines the legacy of the Galileo Affair as a weapon used by Protestants against those who, despite the scientific age of the earth, read Genesis literally. Believing science to have a legitimate role in correcting biblical interpretations, nineteenth-century religionists sought to explain the doctrine of creation in accordance with the geological evidence for “Deep Time.” This was the lesson they gleaned from the Catholic Church’s condemnation of Galileo. Yet by casting the controversy over Genesis in the categories supplied by the conflict over geo-centrism and the Bible, these Protestants misrepresented both contests, as have the historians studying them
Doctrine · Galileo (satellite navigation · Political science · Protestantism · Theology · Classics · Diverse Historical and Scientific Studies · History · History of Science and Medicine · History of Science and Natural History · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies · Geology
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The Emergence of a Scientific Culture. Science and the Shaping of Modernity 1210-1685
Fundamentalisms and Society
The Galileo Affair
The Warfare between Science and Religion
Young-Earth Creationists in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain? Towards a Reassessment of 'Scriptural Geology
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |