Dr. Sunshine shares a snippet from his course on Enchantment about medieval astronomy and how it influence the theology of the day.
[from the medieval perspective] “Just because the planets and the stars revolve around earth, doesn’t mean that Earth is the most important thing. God is. And, in fact, we are the furthest thing from Him.”
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