--- product_id: 59183050 title: "Galileo (Christian Encounters)" price: "AED 425" currency: AED in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.ae/products/59183050-galileo-christian-encounters store_origin: AE region: United Arab Emirates --- # Galileo (Christian Encounters) **Price:** AED 425 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Galileo (Christian Encounters) - **How much does it cost?** AED 425 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ae](https://www.desertcart.ae/products/59183050-galileo-christian-encounters) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description We learn about life through the lives of others. Their experiences, their trials, their adventures become our schools, our chapels, our playgrounds. Christian Encounters, a series of biographies from Thomas Nelson Publishers, highlights important lives from all ages and areas of the Church through prose as accessible and concise as it is personal and engaging. Some are familiar faces. Others are unexpected guests. Whether the person is Galileo, William F. Buckley, John Bunyan, or Isaac Newton, we are now living in the world that they created and understand both it and ourselves better in the light of their lives. Their relationships, struggles, prayers, and desires uniquely illuminate our shared experience. HERO OR HERETIC? GENIUS OR BLASPHEMER? It's no mystery how profound a role Galileo played in the Scientific Revolution. Less explored is the Italian innovator's sincere, guiding faith in God. In this exhaustively researched biography that reads like a page-turning novel, Mitch Stokes draws on his expertise in philosophy, logic, math, and science to attune modern ears with Galileo's controversial genius. Emerging from the same Florentine milieu that produced Dante, da Vinci, Machiavelli, Michelangelo, Amerigo Vespuci, Galileo questioned with a persistence that spurred his world toward an unabating era of discovery. Stokes confronts the myth that Galileo's stance on heliocentricity stood astride a church vs. science divide and explores his calculations for the dimensions of Dante's hell, his understanding of motion, and his invention of the pendulum clock. To read this volume is to journey through Galileo's remarkable life: from his inquisitive childhood to his dying days, when, although blind and decrepit, he soldiered on, dictating mathematical thoughts and mentoring young proteges. Review: More Galileo - Interesting approach covering a very interesting man of science and his times. Well presented and documented. There's always more to this many times told tale. Review: Galileo: An Italian Genius - "On February 19, 1616, at the behest of the pope, the Holy Office of the Inquisition asked a panel of eleven1595550313_l theologians to judge the following Copernican theses." The thesis was stated as follows: The sun is the center of the world and hence immovable of local motion. The earth is not the center of the world, nor immovable but moves according to the whole of itself, also with a diurnal motion. The papal lynch mob responded in kind by suggesting that the immobility of the sun, was "foolish and absurd in philosophy, and formally heretical, inasmuch as it expressly contradicts the doctrine of the Holy Scripture in many passages, both in their literal meaning and according to the general interpretation of the Fathers and Doctors." The second thesis was judged in similar fashion: "... To receive the same censure in philosophy and, as regards theological truth, to be at least erroneous in faith." These are the matters before the Roman Catholic Church in the early 17th century, just over 100 years after the thunderbolt that struck when Luther hammered his 95 thesis on the castle door for public dispute. Luther's action was considered treasonous and heretical and was consequently labeled as a heretic and labeled by the Pope Leo XV as a "wild boar in the vineyard." As a result, Luther is hunted for the remainder of his days. Evidently, bad habits die hard because Rome is still on the hunt in the 17th century - only this time, their target is the brilliant scientist, Galileo. Galileo by Mitch Stokes is a fascinating account of a man who sought to reconcile the universals and the particulars. He was not only a sharp scientist (some consider him to be the most influential in the history of western thought), he also had a keen philosophical mind and a heart for the Scriptures. Stokes guides readers on a fairly comprehensive tour of the Italian genius. He chronicles his days as a boy and discusses the influence of his father, his life as a university student, and ultimately his career as a university professor. But the most interesting part of the tale has to do with Galileo's defense of Copernicus, the German astronomer who set forth a heliocentric vision of the universe. This vision bravely displaced the earth from the center and moved the sun to "center" stage. Initially, Rome was content to simply put up with the heliocentric model, (even though the church essentially prohibited the promotion of Copernicanism in a 1616 edict), so long as it was presented as mere "mathematical tool." Galileo was not content was this clever arrangement - even as his friend made his ascent to the papal throne - Pope Urban VIII. The publication of Galileo's book, Dialogue prompted a firestorm that led the Pope to order a special Commission to investigate the contents of the book. The controversy eventually escalated which resulted in "an outburst of rage" from the Pope who remarked that Galileo had "entered the most dangerous ground there was." Ultimately, Pope Urban accused Galileo of betraying his trust. As a result, he refused to allow Galileo to speak to him personally. Evidently, Galileo forgot that the Pope speaks ex cathedra! ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #971,946 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #998 in Science & Religion (Books) #1,248 in Scientist Biographies #4,141 in Religious Leader Biographies | | Customer Reviews | 4.3 out of 5 stars 66 Reviews | ## Images ![Galileo (Christian Encounters) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91CcrsJcjSL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ More Galileo *by K***R on October 9, 2015* Interesting approach covering a very interesting man of science and his times. Well presented and documented. There's always more to this many times told tale. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Galileo: An Italian Genius *by D***E on July 12, 2013* "On February 19, 1616, at the behest of the pope, the Holy Office of the Inquisition asked a panel of eleven1595550313_l theologians to judge the following Copernican theses." The thesis was stated as follows: The sun is the center of the world and hence immovable of local motion. The earth is not the center of the world, nor immovable but moves according to the whole of itself, also with a diurnal motion. The papal lynch mob responded in kind by suggesting that the immobility of the sun, was "foolish and absurd in philosophy, and formally heretical, inasmuch as it expressly contradicts the doctrine of the Holy Scripture in many passages, both in their literal meaning and according to the general interpretation of the Fathers and Doctors." The second thesis was judged in similar fashion: "... To receive the same censure in philosophy and, as regards theological truth, to be at least erroneous in faith." These are the matters before the Roman Catholic Church in the early 17th century, just over 100 years after the thunderbolt that struck when Luther hammered his 95 thesis on the castle door for public dispute. Luther's action was considered treasonous and heretical and was consequently labeled as a heretic and labeled by the Pope Leo XV as a "wild boar in the vineyard." As a result, Luther is hunted for the remainder of his days. Evidently, bad habits die hard because Rome is still on the hunt in the 17th century - only this time, their target is the brilliant scientist, Galileo. Galileo by Mitch Stokes is a fascinating account of a man who sought to reconcile the universals and the particulars. He was not only a sharp scientist (some consider him to be the most influential in the history of western thought), he also had a keen philosophical mind and a heart for the Scriptures. Stokes guides readers on a fairly comprehensive tour of the Italian genius. He chronicles his days as a boy and discusses the influence of his father, his life as a university student, and ultimately his career as a university professor. But the most interesting part of the tale has to do with Galileo's defense of Copernicus, the German astronomer who set forth a heliocentric vision of the universe. This vision bravely displaced the earth from the center and moved the sun to "center" stage. Initially, Rome was content to simply put up with the heliocentric model, (even though the church essentially prohibited the promotion of Copernicanism in a 1616 edict), so long as it was presented as mere "mathematical tool." Galileo was not content was this clever arrangement - even as his friend made his ascent to the papal throne - Pope Urban VIII. The publication of Galileo's book, Dialogue prompted a firestorm that led the Pope to order a special Commission to investigate the contents of the book. The controversy eventually escalated which resulted in "an outburst of rage" from the Pope who remarked that Galileo had "entered the most dangerous ground there was." Ultimately, Pope Urban accused Galileo of betraying his trust. As a result, he refused to allow Galileo to speak to him personally. Evidently, Galileo forgot that the Pope speaks ex cathedra! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Loved this book. *by M***S on May 3, 2011* I just finished the book Galileo by Mitch Stokes from the Christian Encounters Series. I received this book from BookSneeze. I am going to start this review by telling you that I immensely enjoyed this book. I don't normally read biographies, but I was drawn to this one because I feel some small amount of kindred with all mathematicians. I can't say that I had any specific curiosity about Galileo in particular, but all of the historical scientists and mathematicians grab some measure of my attention. As I started this book, I noticed immediately a couple of things about the author, Mitch Stokes. First, I noticed the amount of work that must have gone into this book from the immense amount of footnoting. The book ends with the 16 pages of referenced footnotes. When an author goes to that much effort to validate what he is saying, you walk away feeling like you have read an accurate account and not simply one author's opinion. The second thing I noticed about the author is his, for lack of a better word, personableness. I don't think that is a real word, at least the spell-checker is telling me that it isn't, but that's the best I could do. I tell you this because I felt, while I was reading this, as if I was hearing the story from a close friend of Galileo's, someone who really knew him, and someone who cared about his story. To be able to write about someone in such a way that you walk away feeling you got all of the historical facts in an accurate manner and at the same time you feel as though you were talking to an acquaintance is a hefty task. Whether or not Mitch Stokes was attempting to accomplish that goal or not, I have no idea, but that is how I walked away from this book. This leads me to my next point, because of this book, I have a new appreciation for Galileo. As much as Galileo was a scientist and sought to have his mathematics and his science to correlate perfectly with the observable world, he also had great respect for the church. This book included example after example where Galileo demonstrated his submission to the authority of the church. This is one area where the legends have misconstrued the reality of the story. In Galileo's book, titled Dialogue, he begins to draw to a conclusion his arguments for Copernicanism by also stating that there is an argument before which one "must fall silent." I know that if asked whether God in His infinite power and wisdom could have conferred upon the watery element its observed reciprocating motion using some other means than moving its containing vessels, both of you would reply that He could have, and that He would have known how to do this in many ways which are unthinkable to our minds. From this I forthwith conclude that, this being so, it would be excessive boldness for anyone to limit and restrict the Divine power and wisdom to some particular fancy of his own. In other words, Galileo, after arguing for the motion of the earth (which we now know is true) by saying that the tides were caused by the motion of the earth (which they aren't, they are caused by the gravity of the moon) he states that what he has observed could be explained in an infinite number of other ways because there is an infinitely powerful God. Galileo also argued for the church (or at least the believers) to be able to give a believable account for what they hold to be true from scripture. He put it this way (by quoting Augustine): The distressing thing is not so much that an erring man [i.e., the believer] should be laughed at, but that our authors [of scripture] should be thought by outsiders to believe such things, and should be criticized and rejected ignorant, to the great detriment for those whose salvation we care about. For how can they believe our books in regard to the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven, when they catch a Christian committing an error about something they know very well, when they declare false his opinion taken from those books, and when they find these full of fallacies in regard to things they have already been able to observe or to establish by unquestionable argument? This way of thinking presents some challenges and hurdles when considering the consensus science that is around today. Anyway... Read this book. 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