ABSTRACT
The seventeenth century has been witness to the new developments of the views on space and time. The Aristotelian definition of the void—that is, space—was that which surrounds objects with the consequence that without the presence of objects the void would not exist. Newton's discovery did not upset his faith in the mysterious faculties of the imperceptible ether to transmit movements. Newton's laws marked only the incipient stage of the great revolution. The real one came later with the abolition of the ether by Maxwell and Einstein. The Church's religious philosophy was based on a modified version of Aristotle's Prime Mover. Theology had to start from scratch after the paroxysm in thinking set in motion by Newton. People owe much more to the Kalam, to general relativity and its consequences, and finally to the corroboration of this theoretical evidence found by modern astrophysicists for having laid the cornerstone for a new and much more convincing religious philosophy.
