The Sleepwalkers
“Not only contradictions and propositions far from true might thus be made to appear in the Bible, but even grave heresies and follies.
Thus it would be necessary to assign to God feet, hands, and eyes, as well as corporeal and human affections, such as anger, repentance, hatred, and sometimes even the forgetting of things past and ignorance of those to come...
For that reason it appears that nothing physical which sense-experience sets before our eyes, or which necessary demonstrations prove to... us, ought to be called in question (much less condemned) upon the testimony of biblical passages which may have some different meaning beneath their words." 14 In support of this thesis, Galileo quoted at length St.
Augustine as a witness – not realizing that, theologically, he was walking on extremely thin ice (see below, p.
443).
Then comes a breathtaking passage, where one can almost hear the ice cracking under his feet: "...
I question whether there is not some equivocation in failing to specify the virtues which entitle sacred theology to the title of 'queen'.MoreLess
Thus it would be necessary to assign to God feet, hands, and eyes, as well as corporeal and human affections, such as anger, repentance, hatred, and sometimes even the forgetting of things past and ignorance of those to come...
For that reason it appears that nothing physical which sense-experience sets before our eyes, or which necessary demonstrations prove to... us, ought to be called in question (much less condemned) upon the testimony of biblical passages which may have some different meaning beneath their words." 14 In support of this thesis, Galileo quoted at length St.
Augustine as a witness – not realizing that, theologically, he was walking on extremely thin ice (see below, p.
443).
Then comes a breathtaking passage, where one can almost hear the ice cracking under his feet: "...
I question whether there is not some equivocation in failing to specify the virtues which entitle sacred theology to the title of 'queen'.MoreLess
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