Thinking God’s Thoughts: Johannes Kepler and the Miracle of Cosmic Comprehensibility

Why is the cosmos intellectually accessible to the human mind?

A host of philosophers, theologians, scientists, and mathematicians of the Great Western Tradition have been struck by the uncanny interconnection between three fundamentally distinct domains of reality: nature, mathematics, and the human mind. This resonance has been discussed since antiquity and often attributed to a transcendent rational source of both material and immaterial aspects of reality. Johannes Kepler, a devout Christian who was greatly influenced by this intellectual tradition, was instrumental in transforming classical astronomy into a true celestial physics. He was convinced that a tripartite harmony of archetype, copy, and image explained the interconnections that made his natural philosophy possible-that allowed him to share in God’s own thoughts. Rather than being diminished by the past few centuries of scientific progress, Keplerian natural theology is a more robust explanation of cosmic comprehensibility than ever before.

Author: Melissa Cain Travis
Publisher: Roman Roads Press
Published: 12/05/2022
Pages: 370
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.77d
ISBN13: 9781944482763
ISBN10: 1944482768
BISAC Categories:
– Philosophy | Individual Philosophers
– Religion | Christian Theology | Apologetics
– Mathematics | History & Philosophy

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