
Thinking God's Thoughts
Johannes Kepler and the Miracle of Cosmic Comprehensibility
Melissa Cain Travis(Author)
Roman Roads Press
Published on 5. December 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
370 pages
978-1-944482-76-3 (ISBN)
Description
Why is the cosmos intellectually accessible to the human mind?
A host of philosophers, theologians, scientists, and mathematicians of the Great Western Tradition have been struck by the uncanny interconnection between three fundamentally distinct domains of reality: nature, mathematics, and the human mind. This resonance has been discussed since antiquity and often attributed to a transcendent rational source of both material and immaterial aspects of reality. Johannes Kepler, a devout Christian who was greatly influenced by this intellectual tradition, was instrumental in transforming classical astronomy into a true celestial physics. He was convinced that a tripartite harmony of archetype, copy, and image explained the interconnections that made his natural philosophy possible-that allowed him to share in God's own thoughts. Rather than being diminished by the past few centuries of scientific progress, Keplerian natural theology is a more robust explanation of cosmic comprehensibility than ever before.
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
465 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-944482-76-3 (9781944482763)
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Melissa Cain Travis received her PhD in Humanities (Philosophy) from Faulkner University and MA in Science and Religion from Biola University. She teaches graduate courses in the history and philosophy of science as well as the apologetics of C. S. Lewis. She is the author of Science and the Mind of the Maker and a senior writer at the Worldview Bulletin. Dr. Travis is a Fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture and she lectures at universities, seminaries, and churches around the country.