Mittelalterliche Hermeneutik

Athanasius Kircher’s magical instruments: an essay on ‘science’, ‘religion’ and applied metaphysics

“…The Bible itself is full of metaphors and parables. See de Lubac's (1959Lubac's ( -1966 and especially Brinkmann's (1980) standard works on modes of scriptural interpretation. See also Brisson (2004) for neo-Platonic symbolism and myth interpretation in relation to scriptural interpretation.…”

“…Mathematical propositions and experimental setups cannot be fully 'explained' by their religious contexts, nor should we endorse contemporary critiques that Jesuit scientia was nothing more than a sneaky way of making proselytes, but these religious and apostolic contexts can nevertheless prove crucial in 45 Ignatius (1970, p. 184), cited in Harris (1989, p. 51). 46 For the Christian tradition to read the world as full of divine signs, see Brinkmann (1980). The Trinity had been central to Ignatius of Loyola's spirituality, and he was always on the lookout for signs from God, which had to guide the choices he made.…”