Robert Grosseteste and the pursuit of Religious and Scientific Learning in the Middle Ages (eBook)

Dr. Jack P. Cunningham is Academic Coordinator for Theology at Bishop Grosseteste University Lincoln. Previously he has written on the Reformations in both Ireland and Iceland. Publications include, James Ussher and John Bramhall: the Theology and Politics of two Irish Ecclesiastics of the Seventeenth Century (Ashgate, 2007) and Robert Grosseteste his thought and its Impact (Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2012). Dr. Mark D. Hocknull is Chancellor of Lincoln Cathedral and Senior Fellow at the University of Lincoln. He has a PhD in Biochemical Engineering from University College London and a PhD from Lancaster University in Religious Studies. Previous publications include, Pannenberg on Evil, God and Love: the realization of Divine (Ashgate, 2014).-

Grosseteste’s Hexaemeron: the Order and Beauty of the Universe.- Medieval lessons for modern challenges to Science and Religion.- Greco- Arabic precursors of Grosseteste in the science of Optics.- The form of Corporeity and the Nomological image of Nature.- Religion, Philosophy and Science: Roger Bacon’s Opus maius.- Can Science and Religion meet over their subject-matter? –a thirteenth-Century Example.- A Theoretical fulcrum: Robert Grosseteste on Infinitude.- A Mathematical Interpretation of Grosseteste’s De luce.- Medicine for the Body and Soul: Healthy living in the age of Grosseteste.- God as being and goodness: Transcendentals in Grosseteste’s commentary on the De divinis nominibus.- Colours of the Rainbow: Robert Grosseteste’s three-dimensional colour space.- Grosseteste’s Cosmogony and Lemaitre’s proposal of the Big Bang.- The theological use of science and philosophy in Robert Grosseteste and Adam Marsh according to Roger Bacon: the ‘case studies’ of angelic movements and Rainbows.- Faith produced by great knowledge, or knowledge acquired through strong Faith? Grosseteste’s life, deeds, education and Study.- The king, the clerotes and the tyrant: how Grosseteste brought Aristotle to the Parish.- Robert Grosseteste and the impact of the Lateran Council IV.