Michael J. Crowe (1)
Auteur van Theories of the World from Antiquity to the Copernican Revolution: Second Revised Edition
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Another thing Crowe stresses is that writers' views on extraterrestrials, whether pro or con, were often closely intertwined with their religious beliefs. Natural theologians saw the assumed existence of extraterrestrials as further proof of God's omnipotence and benevolence, while some Christians found it impossible to square Christ's redemptive mission to Earth with the existence of other mankinds on other planets. But there's little obvious pattern; Catholics, Anglicans, deists, materialists, and others are all found on both sides of the debate. He's coy about his own religious affiliations, but the last words of the conclusion would seem to confirm him as a theist of some sort.
The book focuses mostly on Great Britain, the US, France, and the German-speaking world, with occasional forays into the rest of Europe (and one to Canada). What if anything non-Westerners wrote or thought on the subject is not dealt with - which may be a good thing, given the size of the book as it is.… (meer)