Galileo and Spinoza
Heroes, Heretics, and Hermeneutics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4456919 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tamar Rudavsky, T M Rudavsky (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 611-631 |
| Publication date | 2001-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the History of Ideas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-5037 • E-ISSN: 1086-3222 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jhi.2001.0039 |
| OpenAlex | W2080472914 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 3 |
My purpose in this paper is to explore what happens when a scientific methodology rooted in mathematical geometry is then applied to biblical hermeneutics. Galileo and Spinoza are both thinkers who, in their adoption of the methods of philosophy and science, challenged the limits of their social, intellectual, and theological margins. Both thinkers were regarded by their peers as threats to the institutional life of their respective communities; both espoused doctrines that were regarded as heretical by their governing bodies. What I shall try to demonstrate is that Galileo and Spinoza share a methodological program of natural science which, rooted in a mathematical view of nature, is then applied to Scripture. It is this methodological preoccupation that dooms them both and ultimately subjects them to the charge of heresy
Epistemology · Galileo (satellite navigation) · Heresy · Hermeneutics · Natural (archaeology) · Natural Philosophy · Philosophy of science · Theology · Historical Philosophy and Science · History · Medieval and Classical Philosophy · Philosophy · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,23 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2022 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |