Abstract
The theological framework for Kepler's cosmos is based on a metaphorical Trinitarian symbolism, with the sun as God the Father, the firmament as Jesus Christ, and the intervening space as the Holy Spirit. In his heliocentric cosmology the sun becomes the source of planetary movement just as in the Aristotelian geocentric universe God's love beyond the starry realm was seen as the source of the eternal motion of the spheres. Searching for a divinely rooted physical explanation of planetary orbital motion, Kepler began with his solar-oriented distance law, which miraculously led to his law of areas. Finally he chose the ellipse from competing curves because its focus (“hearth”) coincided with the sun, the source of God-given motion.
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