Abstract

BASILICO, Brenda Verónica. Divine metaphysics and natural theology. discus.filos [online]. 2022, vol.23, n.41, pp.15-30.  Epub July 31, 2023. ISSN 0124-6127.  https://doi.org/10.17151/difil.2022.23.41.2.

The recognition of God's existence through mathematical truth explains the presence of a scientific discourse on divinity in Father Mersenne's (1588-1648) writings. His work encompasses numerous metaphors, analogies, and representations of God, employing not only pure mathematics but also mixed sciences. Consequently, God is portrayed as the greatest mathematician, the conductor of universal harmony, the architect of creation, a divine Orpheus, the embodiment of unison, the center of the circumference, the sun, or the source of everything that exists. This article aims to establish the association between the mathematical discourse on God and natural theology. Additionally, it seeks to analyze the hypothesis of mathematical univocity and the legitimacy of the identification between theology, mathematics, and metaphysics. To accomplish this, we will discuss the significant and unconventional contributions made by Jean-Luc Marion and Vincent Carraud in their 1994 publications. Both authors defend the identification between mathematics and metaphysics, along with its subsequent univocity.

Keywords : Mathematics; theology; metaphysics; seventeenth-century; Mersenne.

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