{"id":1409,"date":"2007-06-18T00:27:14","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T00:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/06\/in-our-time.html"},"modified":"2007-06-18T00:27:14","modified_gmt":"2007-06-18T00:27:14","slug":"in-our-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/06\/in-our-time.html","title":{"rendered":"In our Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Really great episode of the BBC4 Radio program, on "Renaissance Astrology." It left me with several unanswered questions<\/a>, but it was an excellent general introduction, setting things in context – which is what all good historical discussions do. You have ’til Wednesday to download, but the shows are available for computer-listening in the archives beyond the week sell-date now. <\/p>\n

Oh, and what are my questions?<\/p>\n

1) I am still fuzzy, beyond the general concept of mapping and congruence, how people believed it all actually worked<\/em>. How <\/em>did they believe that the position and movements of the planets made one decision more propitious than another, or affected your health? What was the mechanism?<\/p>\n

2) The general outline traced was Ptolemy – Arabs – Renaissance. Surely astrology was a part of medieval European thinking? I understand the emphasis on the Renaissance, for that is really the beginning of the end, but what of the Middle Ages? Was it just more of what Ptolemy began? <\/p>\n

2) Augustine was mentioned – and we know what he said about astrology – and then some questions raised at the end of the period discussed. But I wanted to know (naturally) more about the relationship of the Church to astrology during those 1600 or so years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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