by Christoph Sander (c) 2023
Temporary repository for work-in-progress research project
The early modern period is usually viewed as a time of profound change, including the so-called ‘Scientific Revolution’ and the Protestant/Catholic Reformation. Historians of science have linked these two seemingly disparate transformations in many different ways but one important missing link between them is yet to be uncovered. Our leading hypothesis is that dogmatics as the central branch of theology in the early modern university was much concerned with empirical natural knowledge. University textbooks eagerly and seriously addressed many questions related to empirical knowledge, such as: Can the bodily resurrection be understood from a physiological perspective? Which physics apply for the Eucharist? While much has been written on theology’s impact on the natural sciences, SCIGMA will turn the tables to uncover a deeply entangled relationship through a first systematic examination of how naturalism and empiricism informed scholastic and dogmatic theology, from the Council of Trent to the French Revolution across all Western Christian denominations. Its research agenda will consider theology as a manifestation of ‘scientia’ in the premodern university and therefore include it within the history of science and knowledge.
The first goal of the project is to discover the multiple and changing ways in which natural knowledge informed premodern scholastic theology, which sought a rational reconstruction of faith. Second, it will uncover what effective epistemological frameworks were required by and emerged from this interplay of empiricism and revelation. Third, it will trace how these epistemological frameworks were determined by their embedding within religious and secular institutions of learning. The project aims to demonstrate the significant role of the, as it were, empirico-dogmatic domain for premodern Western societies that fundamentally reshaped scientific inquiry, but were also deeply religious – and ultimately paved the way to secularization and scientism.
- Jesuit Science Revisited: Scope, Usefulness, and Challenges of a Historiographical Label. Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu 91, no. 182 (2022): 461–493.
- Die Außengrenzen des menschlichen Körpers. Das Wesen von Blut und Haaren in scholastischen Debatten der Frühen Neuzeit. In De homine. Anthropologien in der Frühen Neuzeit, edited by Sascha Salatowsky and Wilhelm Schmidt‐Biggemann, 181-215. Stuttgart: Steiner, 2021.
- Uniformitas et soliditas doctrinae. History, Topics and Impact of Jesuit Censorship in Philosophy (1550-1599). In Jesuit Philosophy on the Eve of Modernity, edited by Cristiano Casalini, 34–71. Jesuit Studies 20. Leiden; Boston : Brill, 2019.
- Alfonso Salmerón über weltliche Wissenschaften im Dienste der Bibelexegese. In ‚Omne verum vero consonat’. Das Prinzip der Einheit der Wahrheit zwischen 5. Laterankonzil (1512‐1517) und Wissenschaftlicher Revolution. Freiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Theologie 64, no. 2 (2017): 344-360.
- ‚Omne verum vero consonat’. Das Prinzip der Einheit der Wahrheit zwischen 5. Laterankonzil (1512‐1517) und Wissenschaftlicher Revolution, edited by Annalisa Capiello, Marco Lamanna, and Christoph Sander, Freiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Theologie 64, no. 1 (OpenAccess) and no. 2 (OpenAccess) (2017).
- Johannes de Sacrobosco und die Sphaera-Tradition in der katholischen Zensur der Frühen Neuzeit. NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 26, no. 4 (2018): 437–474.
- (with Cristiano Casalini) Benet Perera’s Pious Humanism. Aristotelianism, Philology, and Education in Jesuit Colleges. An Edition of Perera's Documenta quaedam perutilia. In History of Universities, edited by Mordechai Feingold, 30,1:1–42. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
- For Christ’s Sake: Pious Notions of the Human and Animal Body in Early Jesuit Philosophy and Theology. In Human and Animal Cognition in Early Modern Philosophy and Medicine, edited by Roberto Lo Presti and Stefanie Buchenau, 55–73. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017.
- In dubio pro fide. The Fifth Council of the Lateran Decree Apostolici Regiminis (1513) and Its Impact on Early Jesuit Education and Pedagogy. Educazione. Giornale di Pedagogia Critica 3, no. 1 (2014): 39–62.
- Medical Topics in the De Anima Commentary of Coimbra (1598) and the Jesuits’ Attitude towards Medicine in Education and Natural Philosophy. Early Science and Medicine 19, no. 1 (2014): 76–101.
- The War of the Roses. The Debate between Diego de Ledesma and Benet Perera about the Philosophy Course at the Jesuit College in Rome. Edited by Marco Lamanna and Marco Forlivesi. Quaestio 14 (2014): 31–50.
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