Theologians

The French cleric and mathematician Marin Mersenne and the theologian Pierre Gassendi subjected Fludd s sacramental theology of the alchemical blood to stringent criticism. They reserved their most severe censure, however, for Fludd s demonology, as well as... 

Dobbs, Betty Jo Teeter. "Newton as alchemist and theologian." In Standing on the shoulders of giants, ed. Norman J.W. Thrower, 128-140. Berkeley Univ of California P, 1990. 

Montgomery, John Warwick, Cross and crucible Johann Valentine Andreaea (1586- 1654) phoenix of the theologians, The Hague Nijhoff, 1973. 

Walker, Daniel Pickering. Orpheus the theologian and Renaissance Platonists. J Warburg CourtauldInsts 16 (1953) 100-120. 

Widespread Interest in Arabic in 17th Century England Among Biblical Scholars, Theologians, Natural Philosophers and Fellow of the Royal Society, As Well As Others. 

I have always avoided the pitfalls implicit in the word truth by telling my students that truth is the concern of lawyers and theologians, and that I, like many scientists, am content to regard my ideas about the behaviour of matter as more or less useful to the extent that they produce coherent, economical explanations and valid predictions. 

In spite of the fact that magical practices were incorporated into Christian ritual and belief, early Christian theologians began to define magic as heretical and separate from religion. As the Catholic Church came to dominate Western culture in the Middle Ages, this view became the accepted norm. The practice of magic, however, did not stop. 

Carl von Linne (Linnaeus) described the Falun mine as follows .. . Out of the mine a constant smoke ascended. Never has a poet described a Styx, nor a theologian a hell so awful, as that seen here, for... 

Karl Heim—a philosopher, theologian, and author of the 1952 book Christian Faith and Natural Science—believes the fourth dimension will remain forever beyond our grasp ... 

If, desirous of keeping you in one place, they surrounded you on all sides, you can step over them and find yourself free from them in a way quite inconceivable to them. In their eyes, you would be an all-powerful being—an inhabitant of a higher world, similar to those supernatural beings about whom theologians and metaphysicians tell us. 

For conflicts between theologians and alchemists on the subject of Creation see Williams, Common Expository 46. 

Nitrous oxide is discovered by English scientist, theologian, and philosopher Joseph Priestly (1733— 1804). 

Nitrous oxide is a gas with anesthetic (numbness-causing) and (painkilling) analgesic properties. It was first discovered in 1772 by English scientist, theologian, and philosopher Joseph Priestly. Priestly was also the man who co-discovered oxygen (which he termed phlo-gisticated air ). In 1776, he wrote about the discovery of N20, which he called nitrous air. ... 

In its beginning this Water was volatile, as a mist condensation made of it a matter more or less fixed. But whatsoever may have been this Matter, the first principle of things, it was created in shadows too thick for the human mind to see clearly. Only the Author of Nature knows it, and in vain would theologians and philosophers wish to determine what it was yet, it is very probable that this dark abyss, this chaos, was an aqueous, or humid, matter, since it would be more easily rarefied and condensed, and consequently more suitable, because of these qualities, for the construction of the heaven and earth. 

Persons from a Judaeo-Christian background conceive of an enormous gulf between divinity (which is "up there") and the self ("down here"). Christian mystics claims to unity with divine radiance has always posed problems for theologians who are committed to the cosmological subject-object distinction. Most Westerners, therefore, find it difficult to attain unity with the source-light. 

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