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    Cross, Constellation, and Crucible: Lutheran Theology and Alchemy in the Age of the Reformation
    Cross, Constellation, and Crucible: Lutheran Theology and Alchemy in the Age of the Reformation
    Cross, Constellation, and Crucible: Lutheran Theology and Alchemy in the Age of the Reformation
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    Cross, Constellation, and Crucible: Lutheran Theology and Alchemy in the Age of the Reformation

    By John Warwick Montgomery

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    Originally appearing in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, 1963, this book follows the lead of Dr. John Warwick Montgomery, who traces the parallel paths of the two major paradigm shifts of the early modern era, the Copernican Revolution and the Protestant Reformation. Along the way, he delivers well-researched insights into the surprisingly close relationship between religion and science in both their day and ours.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNew Reformation Publications
    Release dateMar 11, 2017
    ISBN9781945500688
    Cross, Constellation, and Crucible: Lutheran Theology and Alchemy in the Age of the Reformation

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      Cross, Constellation, and Crucible - John Warwick Montgomery

      Cross, Constellation, and Crucible:

      Lutheran Astrology and Alchemy in the Age of the Reformation

      By

      John Warwick Montgomery

      An imprint of New Reformation Publications

      Cross, Constellation, and Crucible: Lutheran Astrology and Alchemy in the Age of the Reformation

      Copyright ©1963 by John Warwick Montgomery

      Second, revised edition © 2015

      Originally published in Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, Volume I: Series IV: June, 1963

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial use permitted by copyright law. For permission requests, write to the publisher at the address below.

      New Reformation Publications

      P.O. Box 54032

      Irvine, California 92619–4032

      ISBN: 978–1-945500–95-4 Hard Cover

      ISBN: 978–1-945500–94-7 Soft Cover

      ISBN: 978–1-945500–68-8 E-Book

      NRP Books, an imprint of New Reformation Publications, is committed to packaging and promoting the finest content for fueling a new Lutheran Reformation. We promote the defense of the Faith, confessional Lutheran theology, vocation and civil courage. For more NRP titles, visit www.1517legacy.com.

      Table of Contents

      The Two Revolutions

      Luther and Science

      Cross and Constellation

      Cross and Crucible

      Cross and Contemporaneity

      The Two Revolutions

      FOR most of us, living today in the wake of Marx and Engels’ Communist Manifesto, the term revolution has an inevitably political connotation. For the traditional historian, moreover, schooled in the vicissitudes of national history, such an interpretation is even more to be expected. Thus the revolutionary period generally represents either the late eighteenth-century overthrow of English rule in the American colonies’ and of the Old Régime in France; or the mid-nineteenth century, with its great year of revolutions, 1848; or the Bolshevist success in 1917. But these alterations in the political climate, important as they were, pale in comparison with the radical changes in the total outlook of Western man which occurred in the Europe of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

      The years from 1500 to 1700 witnessed not one, but two, staggering revolutions of thought. In cosmology, the Copernican revolution, culminating in the discoveries of Brahe and Kepler, totally changed man’s conception of the physical universe. Sir James Jeans, in his historical survey The Growth of Physical Science, properly describes the high years of this period as the century of genius. Simultaneously with this cosmological revolution came a theological revolution—the Reformation. Not without reason modern Luther scholars such as Heinrich Boehmer, Anders Nygren, and Philip Watson have spoken of Luther’s break with the medieval thought-world as a Copernican revolution in theology. As Watson well puts it: Just as Copernicus started with a geocentric, but reached a heliocentric conception of the physical world, Luther began with an anthropocentric or egocentric conception of religion, but came to a theocentric conception. In this sense, Luther is a Copernicus in the realm of religion.¹

      The simultaneity of the Copernican and Lutheran revolutions suggests a more than accidental relationship between them. In speaking of these

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