Subverting Aristotle:: Religion, History, and Philosophy in Early Modern Science'The belief that Aristotles philosophy is incompatible with Christianity is hardly controversial today,' writes Craig Martin. Yet 'for centuries, Christian culture embraced Aristotelian thought as its own, reconciling his philosophy with theology and church doctrine. The image of Aristotle as source of religious truth withered in the seventeenth century, the same century in which he ceased being an authority for natural philosophy.' In this fresh