{"product_id":"galileo-and-the-church-political-inquisition-or-critical-dialogue-hardback-9780521344685","title":"Galileo and the Church; Political Inquisition or Critical Dialogue? (Hardback) 9780521344685","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eGalileo and the Church\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePolitical Inquisition or Critical Dialogue?\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book questions the traditional 'grand narratives' of science and religion in the seventeenth century.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRivka Feldhay (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521344685, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 26 May 1995\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e316 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.7 x 16.2 x 2.6 cm, 0.614 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"It is historically well informed and, in the main, interpretively sensitive in a context where such qualities have often in the past been in short supply.\"   American Historical Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book questions the traditional 'grand narratives' of science and religion in the seventeenth century. The binary oppositions underlying the story - between reason and faith, between knowledge and authority, between scripture and the light of nature - have moulded it into a formative myth: the banner of modern rationalism, liberalism and individualism. While deconstructing the oppositions behind the conflict, the book offers an analysis of the complex power\/knowledge field in which the drama of Galileo and the Church unfolded. The act of silencing exemplified in the trials of Galileo is in no need of demonstration. It has been so imprinted in our consciousness that to reassert it is to state the obvious. The author's story is not about the repression of truth by religious authority. It is the story of an encounter between different types of power\/knowledge structures within the framework of a dialogical model.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. The 'Trials of Galileo': 1. The Galileo affair: an interpretation of an historical event\u003cbr\u003e 2. 1616\u003cbr\u003e 3. 1633\u003cbr\u003e Part II: The Culture of the Counter Reformation: 4. The Council of Trent: the doctrinarian phase of the Counter Reformation\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Dominicans: a traditional intellectual elite of the Catholic Church\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Jesuits: an alternative intellectual elite\u003cbr\u003e 7. Freedom and authority in Jesuit culture\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Thomist boundaries of Jesuit education\u003cbr\u003e 9. Dominicans and Jesuits: a struggle for theological hegemony\u003cbr\u003e Part III: Galileo and the Church: 10.  Traditionalist interpretations of Copernicanism: from an unproven to an unprovable doctrine\u003cbr\u003e 11. Copernicanism and the Jesuits\u003cbr\u003e 12. The cultural field of Galileo and the Jesuits\u003cbr\u003e 13. The dispute on sunspots.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of science [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of science\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20science%20%5BPDX%5D%22\"\u003ePDX\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46007111287064,"sku":"9780521344685","price":83.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521344685_7fcd406b-b149-4a81-983d-bea686df7c37.gif?v=1691375496","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/galileo-and-the-church-political-inquisition-or-critical-dialogue-hardback-9780521344685","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}