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Illuminations Episode 8: Watching Heaven

Ministry of Ideas

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The Reception of Heliocentrism

Catholicism had always appreciated non-literal readings of the Bible. The idea of the motion of the earth was not something that was floated at the time of the Church Fathers. Galileo's reception of Heliocentrism coincided with a moment when the Catholic Church was in retrenchment and very worried about letting go of traditional interpretation.

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