Galileo exhortation: Igor Dmitriev

The traditional reconstructions of the history of “Halileo’s exhortation” by Cardinal R. Bellarmipo and the process of 1633 represent these dramatic episodes of intellectual history as events that unfolded exclusively in the conceptual space of confrontation of science and religion. In this work, a fundamentally different understanding of the nature of the theological controversy is proposed about the heliocentric theory, actively protected by Galilee. The causes, dynamics and factual picture of events that led to the exhortation of Galileo were determined by the system of complexly interacting contexts: logical, methodological, confessional, theological, sociocultural and personality-psychological. With such a systemic polyacontextual approach, the story of the exhortation of Galileo, firstly, goes beyond the notorious conflict between science and religion-the beloved beup of Soviet historiography-gaining contradictory multidimensionality, and secondly, the theological component of these events is organically embedded in …

Author
Dmitriev Igor Sergeevich
Publisher
Nestor-History, 2006