The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
The Bible

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dirk van Miert
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
The Bible ◽  
External Pressures ◽  
History Of

In the conclusion, the intrinsic deconstructive power of philology is contrasted with external pressures moving philology in different political and religious directions. The positions of the main protagonists differed widely, but they show that the less they were institutionalized, the more freedom they had to present unorthodox theories. As in the case of natural science, biblical philology was a handmaiden of theology, but it could also be used against certain theologies. In the end, the accumulation of evidence regarding the history of the Bible and the transmission of its texts, could not fail to impinge on the authority of Scripture. The problems in the transmission of the biblical text were widely discussed in the decade leading up to the publication of the Theological-political Treatise. Readers of Spinoza were already familiar with the type of reasoning which Spinoza employed in the central chapters of his notorious work.

The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science.

1999 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 815
Author(s):  
Sheila J. Rabin ◽  
Peter Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
The Bible

The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science. Peter Harrison

Isis ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 90 (2) ◽  
pp. 339-341
Author(s):  
David C. Lindberg
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
The Bible

scholarly journals Prawda Pisma Świętego

2006 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 165
Author(s):  
Tomasz Jelonek
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
Divine Revelation ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Dei Verbum ◽  
Sacred Scripture ◽  
History Of ◽  
Scientific Truth ◽  
Or History

Article presents the history of contradiction between science and the Bible and how it was solved in Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation Dei Verbum of the II Vatican Council. Since biblical truth was given to us “for the sake of our salvation,” and not in order to teach us natural science or history for their own sake, Sacred Scripture cannot be fairly judged to be in error when it sometimes presents historical or scientific truth in a less complete, less detailed, more popular, or more imprecise (i.e. merely approximate) fashion than would be acceptable in modern texts dedicated formally to those disciplines.

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