The Case of Galileo and the Church

Galileo Galilei is repeatedly presented as a typical victim of cruel torture of conscience, theological narrow-mindedness and ecclesiastical harassment. Walter Cardinal Brandmüller, as a church historian and expert on Galileo research, takes up all of the scientific research of the recent past in this work. He is not interested in whitewashing the dark pages of church history, but rather in illuminating them in the sense of a deeper historical understanding.