3 Quotes from Church

1. "Certain people, in their concern to defend the faith, thought it necessary to reject firmly based historical conclusions.  That was a hasty and unhappy decision." -Pope (p. 19)

2. "If it happens that the authority of Sacred Scripture is set in opposition to clear and certain reasoning, this must mean that the person who interprets Scripture does not understand it correctly.  It is not the meaning of Scripture that is opposed to the truth, but the meaning that he has wanted to give to it." -St. Augustine (p. 19)

3. "...that it is not the sun which revolves round the Earth, but the Earth round the sun, then it would be necessary to proceed with great circumspection in the explanation of Scriptural texts which seem contrary to this assertion and to say that we do not understand them, rather than to say that what is demonstrated is false." -Poupard (?) (p. 21)

Dr. Levy,

Sorry for so many questions: 

Would you like us to talk about each author completely separate  in regards to their view points, or would you like us to find a general consensus between all three of them for a final conclusion? 

Quotes from Galileo

1. "...and they made the grave mistake of sprinkling these with passages taken from places in the Bible which they had failed to understand properly, and which were ill-suited to their purposes." (p. 1)

2. "...the authors of the Bible intentionally forboe to speak of these things, though all were quite well known to them."  ... "...touching the form of heaven, that our authors knew the truth but the Holy Spirit did not desire that men should learn things that are useful to no one for salvation."  (p. 7)

3. "Others, led on by pride...and declare that everything they say is to be taken as the law of God...as if distorting passages and twisting the Bible to their individual and contradictory whims were the genuine way of teaching, and not a corrupt one." (p. 11)

Dr. Levy,

Are we suppose to take these quotes and then determine our own personal stance on all the things that we have read about for our papers? Are we allowed to back up our own thoughts with other sources? I might attempt to take on what might look like a contrary approach to what I actually think until my conclusion is reached.  Just want to make sure I am on the right track...

3 Quotes from Brecht

1. "The millennium of faith is ended, said I, this is the millennium of doubt.  And we are pulling out of that contraption.  The sayings of the wise men won't wash any more.  Everybody, at last, is getting nosy.  I predict that in our time astronomy will become the gossip of the market place and the sons of fishwives will pack the schools." -Galileo (p. 49)

2. "My good man--the Almighty would have endowed us with brains like that--so that we could grasp the movements like that.  I believe in the brain." -Galileo (p. 78)

3. "Mr. Galilei is therefore an enemy of mankind and must be dealt with as such.  Is it conceivable that God would trust this most precious fruit of His labor to a minor, frolicking star?" --Old Cardinal (p. 73)

I might change these depending on what I read in the letter... but it's a first draft possibilities. 

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