Chapter 4 Flashcards
(10 cards)
What does Lorini say to the Roman inquisition?
He said that “Galileists, although good Christians, trample under foot all of Aristotle’s philosophy which is so useful for Scholastic authority.
What are the “two texts” which Galileo says we must interpret together?
1) God’s world (the book of nature)
2) God’s Word, the Bible
Why is the pope furious with Galileo over his Dialogues of the Tide?
Galileo had promised the pope that he would treat Copernicanism as a calculational tool, but then he portrayed it as truth and made it look too good. In addition, he put the arguments of the pope in the mouth of a character named Simplicius, which could mean doofus.
How did the Galileo affair help set the stage for the Enlightenment?
It drove a wedge between reason and religion in people’s minds. If the Church had been so wrong about this, could they even be trusted?
What does Galileo believe about Scriptural inerrancy?
He believes the Scriptures can never lie or err, but that interpreters of it can sometimes err.
According to Galileo, what serious mistake is especially common among interpreters of Scripture?
Limiting oneself to the literal meaning of the words, which would result in the Bible contradicting itself, serious heresies and blasphemies, and attributing bodily features and human feelings to God
Galileo points out that both Scripture and nature come from God. Given this fact, what does he say is “the task of wise interpreters”?
To strive to find the tre meanings of Scriptural passages that agree with those things we can clearly see in nature.
According to Galileo, why doesn’t Scripture have much to say about science?
Because the Scripture’s purpose is to persuade people of salvation, not to discuss scientific principles. God has given us our senses, language, and intellect to discover scientific principles on our own.
Is Galileo against anyone condemning his book?
No, but he wants them to understand it, weight it, or even just read it before doing so.
What are the two ways of thinking of theology as “the queen of sciences”? Which view does Galileo hold?
The first way theology is “queen of sciences” is by including everything that is included in the other sciences within itself. The second way it could be queen is because it is a subject which surpasses “in dignity all the subjects which compose the other sciences.” Galileo holds the second view.
