Cardinal Bellarmine's Letter to Foscarini (1615) - The Diigo Meta page

• 04 Jul 13
  

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  • to want to affirm that in reality the sun is  at the center of the world
  • but also to harm the Holy Faith  by rendering Holy Scripture false.
  • Consider now, with your sense of prudence, whether the Church can  tolerate giving Scripture a meaning contrary to the Holy Fathers and to  all the Greek and Latin commentators.
  • ere a true demonstration that  the sun is at the center of the world and the earth in the third heaven
  • But I will not believe that there  is such a demonstration, until it is shown to me . . .
  • case of  doubt one must not abandon the Holy Scripture as interpreted by the Holy  Fathers

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• 29 Apr 06
  

  Clay Burell

  Against the heliocentric Copernican universe, from a Renaissance cardinal: "it's not in the Bible and Solomon said the sun rises, so it must be true."

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  Clay Burell on 2006-10-03
  Against the heliocentric Copernican universe, from a Renaissance cardinal: "it's not in the Bible and Solomon said the sun rises, so it must be true."

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