Bede: On the Nature of Things and on TimesLiverpool University Press, 01.01.2010 - 222 Seiten The Venerable Bede composed On the Nature of Things (De natura rerum) and On Times (De temporibus) at the outset of his career, about AD 703. Bede fashioned himself as a teacher to his people and his age, and these two short works show him selecting, editing, and clarifying a mass of difficult and sometimes dangerous material. He insisted that his reader understand the mathematical and physical basis of time, and though he was dependent on his textual sources, he also included observations of his own. But Bede was also a Christian exegete who thought deeply and earnestly about how salvation-history connected to natural history and the history of the peoples of the earth. To comprehend his religious mentality, we have to take on board his views on science- and vice versa. On the Nature of Things is a survey of cosmology. Starting with Creation and the universe as a whole, Bede reads the cosmos downwards from the heavens, through the atmosphere, to the oceans and rivers of earth. This order (recapit |
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LUP_Kendal_Bede_01_Intro | 1 |
LUP_Kendal_Bede_02_ONT | 69 |
LUP_Kendal_Bede_03_OT | 105 |
LUP_Kendal_Bede_04_Comm | 133 |
LUP_Kendal_Bede_05_Append | 180 |
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Bede: On the Nature of Things and on Times Saint Bede (the Venerable) Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2010 |
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