earth, not the sun (as a literal reading might imply). Thus, the passage itself is “accommodated” to what is known from another source—which means that exegesis is controlled to a greater or lesser degree by science.12 This is not yet modern theology, but it is a significant concession to the intellectual conditions that finally gave birth to modern theology. The biblical-Aristotelian cosmology was finally laid to rest by Newton’s demonstration that phenomena throughout the universe can be explained