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

by Amos Funkenstein

Book Overview

This pioneering work in the history of science, which originated in a series of three Gauss Seminars given at Princeton University in 1984, demonstrated how the roots of the scientific revolution lay in medieval scholasticism. A work of intellectual history addressing the metaphysical foundations of modern science, Theology and the Scientific Imagination raised and transformed the level of discourse on the relations of Christianity and science...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691024251
• ISBN13: 9780691024257
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"