36. On Metaphysical Principles of a Theocentric Christian Epistemology in Galilean-Newtonian Natural Philosophy

Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton unified scientific and religious knowledge under the paradigm of truth. Methodologically they measured by geometric 'analogous' cognition, according to the Euclidean theory of quaternate proportions, quantities of material motion and their non-material transcendent generating causes within a reference system at true rest, spread out between standards of absolute space and absolute time.

As Galileo's and Newton's method aims at absolute motion, it aims at truth, and as it aims at truth, it centres on God. Its basis is a 'theocentric' epistemology implying the central Christian message of man's ability to know about truth, i.e. to know about God.

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