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Document Details : Title: Schöpfung in Beziehung zur Natur in der Frühneuzeit Subtitle: Zur Art der hermeneutischen 'Korrespondenz' zwischen Theologie und Naturwissenschaft am Beispiel von Samuel Fabricius und Jan Swammerdam durchgedacht Author(s): KOLÁŘOVÁ, Lucie Journal: Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses Volume: 94 Issue: 3 Date: 2018 Pages: 363-389 DOI: 10.2143/ETL.94.3.3285206 Abstract : On the more general level – and from an epistemological point of view – the study examines the question of Early Modern Theology of Creation’s relationship towards the then emerging Natural Sciences, in other words the issue of how the concept of Creation relates to the concept of world as Nature. On the more specific level, the essence of this hermeneutic correspondence is analysed against the example of two intellectual approaches concerning the problem of Creation, respectively Nature: that of the Lutheran theological thinker Samuel Fabricius (1577-1625), and that of the profound Calvinist believer and at the same time passionate natural scientist and scholar Jan Swammerdam (1637-1680). However different their interpretation of Nature, they can be congruously set into the semantic field of so-called physico-theology as figures of thought, displaying a significant thematical interconnectedness between Theology of Creation and Natural Sciences at that time. The confrontation with characteristic symbols of physico-theological thinking enables us to understand the essence of the authors’ approaches regarding the epistemological thread of the text and to draw a conclusion about the mutual relatedness of both discourses under consideration. |
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