On the History of Religion & Science, & on the Mosaic Physics

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History of Religion & Science
Mosaic Physics
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On the History of Religion & Science

Early Church to the Present

Kaiser, C.B. – Creational Theology & the History of Physical Science. The Creationist tradition from Basil to Bohr [d. 1962]  (Brill, 1997)

Peterson, Derrick – Flat Earths & Fake Footnotes: The Strange Tale of How the Conflict of Science and Christianity Was Written Into History  Buy  (Cascade Books, 2021)

“Despite over a hundred years of scholarship debunking the so-called ‘conflict thesis,’ the idea that science and religion are at war, perceptions of conflict persist.  The only way forward from our scholarly impasse is to combine these fields of scholarship to paint a more comprehensive picture of what is going on.  Impeccably researched and thoroughly readable, Peterson offers the reader a tour de force of the best research in the history of science, religion, and theology.” – James C. Ungureanu, Historian, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Middle Ages to 1600’s

Funkenstein, A. – Theology & the Scientific Imagination from the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century  (Princeton Univ. Press, 1986)

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1300’s – 1700’s

Butterfield, Herbert – The Origins of Modern Science, 1300 – 1800  rev. ed. (New York: The Free Press, 1965)

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Reformation to the Present

Articles

Vermij, R. H. – ‘Science & Belief in Dutch History,’ in eds. K. van Berkel et al., History of Science, pp. 332–346

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Books

Dillenberger, John – Protestant Thought & Natural Science. A Historical Interpretation  (1960; Notre Dame, 1988)

Hooykaas, R. – Religion & the Rise of Modern Science  (Edinburgh/London: Scottish Academic Press, 1972)

Brooke, J.H. – Science & Religion. Some Historical Perspectives  (1991; Cambridge Univ. Press, 1999)  ToC

Harrison, P. – The Bible, Protestantism & the Rise of Natural Science  (1998; Cambridge, 2001)  For the Mosaic physics specifically, see pp. 121–129, 138–160.

Ungureanu, James C. – Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition: Retracing the Origins of Conflict  in Science & Culture in the 19th Century  Buy  (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019)  309 pp.

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1500’s – 1600’s

Articles

Blair, Ann – ‘Mosaic Physics & the Search for a Pious Natural Philosophy in the Late Renaissance’  Isis, 91 (2000), pp. 32–58

Sytsma, David S. – ‘Calvin, Daneau & ‘Physica Mosaica’: Neglected Continuities at the Origins of an Early Modern Tradition’  Church History & Religious Culture, vol. 95, no. 4 (2015), pp. 457-476

Cizek, Jan – ‘The ‘Physica Mosaica’ of Johann Heinrich Alsted (1588–1638)’  Theory of Science, XLII (2020)

Cizek is not particularly sympathetic to Alsted’s Mosaic physics project.

Sytsma, David S. – ‘Mosaic Physics’  in Richard Baxter & the Mechanical Philosophers  (Oxford, 2017), ch. 4, ‘A Trinitarian Natural Philosophy’, pp. 112-117

Goudriaan, Aza – ch. 2, ‘Creation, Mosaic Physics, Copernicanism & Divine Accommodation’  in Reformed Orthodoxy & Philosophy  (Brill, 2006)

Leijenhorst, Cees – ‘Place, Space & Matter in Calvinist Physics’  The Monist 84 (2001), pp. 520–541

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Books

Williams, A. – The Common Expositor. An Account of the Commentaries on Genesis, 1527–1633  (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1948)

Westfall, R.S. – Science & Religion in Seventeenth-Century England  (Yale Univ. Press, 1958)

Kearny, Hugh – Science & Change, 1500-1700  (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971)

van Ruler, Han – The Crisis of Causality. Voetius & Descartes on God, Nature & Change  (Leiden, 1995)  340 pp.  ToC

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On Luther & Lutheranism

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Kobe, Donald H. – ‘Luther & Science’

Kobe is a professor of physics at the University of North Texas.

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1700’s to the Present

Book

Mandelbrote & van der Meer – Nature & Scripture in the Abrahamic Religions: 1700-Present  (Brill, 2008)

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1700’s

Bredenhof, Wes – ‘De Moor on Science & Scripture’  2016

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On the Mosaic Physics

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1600’s

Leydekker, Melchior

De origine mundi Mosaica  (Utrecht, 1695)

De Hexaëmero seu sex diebus creationis  (1697–1698)

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1700’s

Driessen – ‘On the Mosaic Origins’  in On Light & the Doctrine of Conscience  (1728)

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History of the Mosaic Physics

 

 

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