Re:Why Catholics Built Astronomical Features into Churches
by toyg on Thursday November 17, 2016 @03:01PM
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Aristotle is not just "science" - it's long been at the center of Christian theology, carrying the main argument that could reconcile Christian faith with the empirical world. Until very recently (and certainly by Galileo's times), contradicting Aristotle meant doing away with the entire building of Christian theology.
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Re:Why Catholics Built Astronomical Features into Churches
by michaelsbradley on Thursday November 17, 2016 @03:54PM
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Well, in Western Christianity the thought of Aristotle has been important since about A.D. 1,100. Not so much in Eastern Christianity, which has favored the thought of Plato for nearly 2,000 years.