Nicholas Copernicus – Revolutionary astronomer
[It is my] loving duty to seek the truth in all things, in so far as God has granted that to human reason.
“The two great turning points of the Reformation age, the Lutheran and the Copernican, seem to have brought mankind nothing but humiliation,” wrote historian Heiko Oberman. “First man is robbed of his power over himself, and then he is pushed to the periphery of creation.”
In contrast to Luther, however, Nicholas Copernicus was not one to make bold, public gesture; instead he spent his life in relative quiet, hesitant to publish his revolutionary views until his very last days. And yet Copernicus, as much as Luther, revolutionized how Europeans thought of themselves, their world, and their God.
Nicholas Copernicus (1473 – 1543)
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Nicholas Copernicus – Revolutionary astronomer | Faith Interface - Christian IBD
on May 25th, 2010
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