Paracelsus

“All the same, Paracelsus’s theological philosophy, while hardly itself scientific, enables science, where Luther’s prohibits it. Indeed, it is not easy to separate Paracelsus’s ‘science’ from his theology, and to the man himself there could never by any such division: his chemical cosmos was comprehensible only within the framework of his distinctive and idiosyncratic Christianity, for God’s work was visible everywhere in nature” (P. Ball , 105). . . Luther’s notion that faith was all did not sit comfortably with Paracelsus’s practical mission of healing” (118).