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Geocentrism in the Fathers: A Matter of Natural Philosophy, Not Theology

In “The Fathers Don’t Support an Immobile Earth” I cited Fr. Melchior Inchofer, S. J., a staunch opponent of Galileo and Copernicanism and an adviser to the Holy Office, admitting that the Fathers do not ever deal with the mobility … Continue reading

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Sungenis Looses What He Has Bound on Joshua 10

In his reply to the very last part of my article “Geocentrism and the Pitfalls of Over-literal Interpretation“, Bob Sungenis claims that he has “trapped” non-geocentrists by his insistence that God could only have accomplished the miracle of Joshua 10 … Continue reading

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The Fathers Don’t Support an Immobile Earth

Bob Sungenis has repeatedly stated that the mobility of the earth is the real key to this whole controversy over geocentrism: the historical record shows that it was only Galileo’s insistence that the earth moved that the Church addressed (“Mark … Continue reading

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