...the aid which it could give to men in their primary task of preparing for heaven. Said St. Ambrose: "To discuss the nature and position of the earth does...our hope of the life to come. It is enough to know that scripture states that 'He hung up the earth upon nothing' (Job 26:7). Why then argue whether He...

...Church, warns his generation of the futility of scientific inquisitiveness in these words (389 AD) : To discuss the nature and position of the earth does...what Scripture states, that " He hung up the earth on nothing " (Job xxvi, 7). Why then argue whether He hung it up in air or upon the water, and raise...

...Church, warns his generation of the futility of scientific inquisitiveness in these words (389 AD) : To discuss the nature and position of the earth does...what Scripture states, that " He hung up the earth on nothing " (Job xxvi, 7). Why then argue whether He hung it up in air or upon the water, and raise...

...laws for him except the will of God. "To discuss the nature and position of the earth," says he, " does not help us in our hope of the life to come....(Job xxvi. 7). Why then argue whether He hung it up hi air or upon the water, and raise a controversy as to how the thin air could sustain the earth ;...

...parts, or if it has the form of a winnowing basket and is hollow in the middle." 3 Said St. Ambrose: "To discuss the nature and position of the earth does not help us in our hope of the life to come." 4 Said Eusebius: "We have justly kept aloof from the unprofitable and erroneous and vain labor of them...

...cosmologies of the Greeks soon disappeared from the Christian West. St. Ambrose expressed a typical attitude: "To discuss the nature and position of the Earth does not help us in our hope of life to come." Throughout the early Middle Ages there could be little doubt about the subsidiary position...

...themselves. An alternative approach was that of Augustine's master St Ambrose, who argued that 'to consider the nature and position of the earth does not help us in our hope of the life to come'. In the same century St Basil the Great remarked that if the Bible had nothing to say on a subject such...

...Antipodes, which where condemned in the past in almost the same way". St. Ambrose (c. 340-397) wrote, "To discuss the nature and position of the earth does not help us in our hope of the life to come, " But, around 420 AD, in the City of God, XVI, 9, Augustine wrote: "The legend that there are antipodes,...

...Greek learning. Spirituality and after-life were considered far more valuable. St Ambrose wrote [3]: To discuss the nature and position of the earth does not help us in our hope of the life to come. In spurning Greek culture, Christian thinkers attached a derogatory connotation to everything pagan...

...of truthful knowledge. Thus Saint Ambrose, for example, disparaged the Greek pursuit of astronomy: "To discuss the nature and position of the earth does not help us in our hope of the [afterlife]." Such attitudes evolved into an actual hatred of secular learning and contributed to one...