Shedding the Galileo Complex
Logan Paul Gage, “A Review of John Lennox’s God’s Undertaker“, Crisis Magazine (January 12, 2008).
In reality, Galileo — a believer in God and the Bible — received the support of many Jesuits and the disapprobation of many secular Aristotelians, who aroused clerical hostility. Galileo — whom the Church never tortured, whatever conspiracy theorists say — lacked diplomacy and seemed to provoke beyond necessity. It is a nuanced tale, hardly confirming the “conflict thesis”. Logan Paul Gage