"Medieval Science," Oxymoron? Think Again - Part 3 of 3
A surge of scientific creativity and innovation burst forth as a result of the inflow of Greco-Arabic learning into Western Europe.
A surge of scientific creativity and innovation burst forth as a result of the inflow of Greco-Arabic learning into Western Europe.
Unlike the popular impression, the European Middle Ages, especially from the 12th century onwards, were an era of impressive scientific progress and innovation.
The revelers in Times Square on New Year's Eve had a pope to thank, if they only knew it.
How foolish and ungrateful is the notion that the Catholic Church has been opposed to science!
The bishop of Heilsberg lay upon his bed as a man who had much business to do and not much time to do it.
"I'll give one tug on this free rope," said the priest, "when I wish you to stop. Two tugs for lowering me, three tugs for raising me. Are we ready?"
Research is constantly producing evidence that we ignore Catholic moral teachings at our peril.
John D. Cunningham, S.J., a particle physicist at Loyola University Chicago, writes in the current volume of Integritas about the rocky history of scientific study in Catholic higher education.
Fr. Stanley L. Jaki used the phrase stillbirths of science in reference to the ancient cultures of Egypt, China, India, Babylon, Greece, and Arabia. The lifeless imagery was the counter-analogy to his claim that science was born of Christianity.
While priests are dedicated to theology as the "queen of sciences," some of them have contributed to the material sciences as well.