The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science. By Peter Harrison
One of the marks of a significant work is surely having a sense when reading it that this is an entirely obvious connection, and why has no one thought of making it before? Peter Harrison’s book explores the way in which understandings of the Fall and its effects on human nature and reason functione...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2010
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 61, Issue: 1, Pages: 423-426 |
| Review of: | The fall of man and the foundations of science (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007) (Methuen, Charlotte)
The fall of man and the foundations of science (Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 2007) (Methuen, Charlotte) |
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| Summary: | One of the marks of a significant work is surely having a sense when reading it that this is an entirely obvious connection, and why has no one thought of making it before? Peter Harrison’s book explores the way in which understandings of the Fall and its effects on human nature and reason functioned in the seventeenth century as a primary motive for conceiving the search for knowledge and the intellectual tools needed to get there. Having read it, it seems entirely clear that understandings of the Fall must be an useful interpretative tool in understanding reason—but somehow no one else has ever noticed this. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flq035 |