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Christian Encounters
About This Book
We learn about life through the lives of others.Their experiences, their trials, their adventures become our schools, our chapels, our playgrounds. Christian Encounters, a series of biographies from Thomas Nelson Publishers, highlights important lives from all ages and areas of the Church through prose as accessible and concise as it is personal and engaging. Some are familiar faces. Others are unexpected guests.Whether the person is Galileo, William F. Buckley, John Bunyan, or Isaac Newton, we are now living in the world that they created and understand both it and ourselves better in the light of their lives. Their relationships, struggles, prayers, and desires uniquely illuminate our shared experience.
HERO OR HERETIC? GENIUS OR BLASPHEMER?
It's no mystery how profound a role Galileo played in the Scientific Revolution. Less explored is the Italian innovator's sincere, guiding faith in God. In this exhaustively researched biography that reads like a page-turning novel, Mitch Stokes draws on his expertise in philosophy, logic, math, and science to attune modern ears with Galileo's controversial genius.
Emerging from the same Florentine milieu that produced Dante, da Vinci, Machiavelli, Michelangelo, Amerigo Vespuci, Galileo questioned with a persistence that spurred his world toward an unabating era of discovery.Stokes confronts the myth that Galileo's stance on heliocentricity stood astride a church vs. science divide and explores his calculations for the dimensions of Dante's hell, his understanding of motion, and his invention of the pendulum clock.
To read this volume is to journey through Galileo's remarkable life: from his inquisitive childhood to his dying days, when, although blind and decrepit, he soldiered on, dictating mathematical thoughts and mentoring young proteges.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. From Monks to Medicine
- 2. An Advanced Civilization
- 3. Everything in Its Right Place
- 4. The Seduction
- 5. “Ignorance of Motion Is Ignorance of Nature”
- 6. A World of Machines
- 7. The Geometry of Hell
- 8. Torturing Nature
- 9. In the Shadow of the Leaning Tower
- 10. Paduan Pleasantness
- 11. Earth Displaced
- 12. An Ill Wind
- 13. A Star Is Born
- 14. Desegregation
- 15. The Pax Romana
- 16. A New Friend
- 17. The Theological Turn
- 18. Warning Signs
- 19. The Crux
- 20. Copernicus Makes the List
- 21. Escaping the Labyrinth
- 22. New Hope
- 23. The Dialogue
- 24. “An Outburst of Rage”
- 25. Vehement Suspicion of Heresy
- 26. The Trojan Horse
- 27. Death and Rehabilitation
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author