Reviews for Theology and the Scientific Imagination from the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century

The average rating for Theology and the Scientific Imagination from the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-04-23 00:00:00 Terry Geize یک کتاب محشر و مرجع در مورد ریشه های علم متجدد از مسیحیت قرون وسطی تا قرن هفدهم. این کتاب که امروزه دیگر به عنوان یک کتاب مرجع از آن یاد می شود، به تلقی هایی از حضور همه جایی خداوند و قدرت مطلقه ی او می پردازد که کم کم در طول رنسانس تغییر پیدا کردند و به امکان پذیر شدن علم متجدد کمک کردند.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-02-12 00:00:00 Nali Tom Amos Funkenstein's book is clearly a masterful work of scholarship. He is often credited as being one of the first modern historians to demonstrate the utility of tracing the evolution of a contemporary idea back through its roots as a means of better understanding. His identification of divine attributes such as omnipotence and omnipresence is insightful and relevant to certain metaphysical developments in modern scientific thought. That being said a few caveats and comments: -This is a book that assumes you are very familiar with the history of Christian theology in the Middle Ages, and that you have a solid grounding in the philosophy of the Enlightenment - a familiarity with the basics of ancient philosophy is also assumed. -The writing style is extremely dense. Paragraphs are packed with meaningful insights and arguments. -This is an academic book, meaning that it suffers from needless academic "accretions" such as: Never settling for 2 or 3 examples when 20 or 30 can be cited. Following an idea through exhaustively-- especially when it is possible to bury the reader in endless and often irrelevant details. Always say more when its possible to say less, ... etc. As I said this is an important book in the modern evolution of historiographic analysis (and I am sure for Professor Funkenstein's standing in his department) but the ideas and arguments are buried under layers of academic pyrotechnics that simply become boring (to me) after a while.