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Geography and theology are interrelated. Before the Reformation geographers considered it their task to explain God's creation ("creatio"); after the Reformation geography was employed to explain His providence ("providentia"). This is the first relationship. In connection with the change of stress from "creatio" to "providentia" in theology, a radical transformation takes place in the field of geography the effects of whidi can still be felt to-day. Before the Reformation there was no physical geography or human geography whidi was independent of theology. Modern geography, therefore, whidi is composed of these two large fields, has its origins in the Reformation era. The second relationship proceeds in the opposite direction, from geography to theology. Melandithon, working under the influence of the new intellectual attitude, finds a new approach to geography, and in his geographical work he is the first to evolve the doctrine of "providentia." The consequence is that the statement on "providentia" is very closely bound up with contemporary geographical material or with contemporary geography. In his "Loci" of 1559 he takes up elements from geographical scholarship 30. Zu Kedcermann und seiner Bedeutung für die Beziehungen zwischen Theologie und Geographie siehe: M. Büttner: Die Neuausrichtung der Geographie im 17. Jahrhundert durch Bartholomäus Keckermann, in: Geographische Zeitschrift, 1975, Jahrgang 63, Heft 1, S. 1-12; ders.: Beziehungen zwischen Theologie und Geographie bei Bartholomäus Keckermann. Seine Sündenund Providentia-Lehre eine Folge der Emanzipation der Geographie aus der Theologie?, in: Neue Zeitschrift für systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie (im Druck).