Is Astrology a Type of Divination? Thomas Aquinas, the Index of Prohibited Books, and the Construction of a Legitimate Astrology in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
What is the relationship between astrology and divination? In particular, is astrology a type of divination, as is often asserted or assumed? In both astrology and divination, knowledge and prediction of the future are primary goals, but does this warrant calling astrology a form of divination? I ap...
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| Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
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Brill
2019
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International journal of divination and prognostication
Έτος: 2019, Τόμος: 1, Τεύχος: 1, Σελίδες: 36-74 |
| Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά: | B
legitimate knowledge
B Μαντική B history of astrology B Middle Ages B Thomas Aquinas B Index of Prohibited Books B Αναγέννηση (μοτίβο) B history of science |
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| Σύνοψη: | What is the relationship between astrology and divination? In particular, is astrology a type of divination, as is often asserted or assumed? In both astrology and divination, knowledge and prediction of the future are primary goals, but does this warrant calling astrology a form of divination? I approach these questions by exploring the response of Thomas Aquinas, which was to be extremely influential for many centuries. First I analyze in some detail Thomas’s answer in his Summa theologiae 2-2.92-95; then I discuss two significant sixteenth-century examples of its influence: the 1557, 1559, 1564, and later indexes of prohibited books; and Pope Sixtus V’s anti-divinatory bull, Coeli et Terrae Creator (1586). In this way, we can explore some of the complex historical dynamics at play in the construction of a legitimate astrology in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. |
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| ISSN: | 2589-9201 |
| Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: International journal of divination and prognostication
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/25899201-12340003 |