Science and Religion in Kepler

"Here reason and ardor meet with an immediacy that might be called religious. For Kepler, mathematics was a mode of feeling, as well as of thinking. His vision delineated the proportions of that ancient temple, the cosmos, which Kepler calls 'the corporeal image of God.' The struggle to behold that mathematical image answers a divine call: 'Man, stretch thy reason hither, so that thou mayest comprehend these things'" (Pesic 112).

Does Kepler have a religious understanding of mathematics and astronomy. In the modern world, science is often divorced from religion. Here, Pesic seems to suggest a different view. If Kepler did view astronomy and mathematics as a means into the mind of God, how does his view of heliocentric solar system with elliptical orbits match up with the geocentric view of the solar system supported by the Church? Wouldn't Pesic's view be completely contrary to the Scripture of his time? In this case, did Kepler believe in mathematics religiously privately, or was he vocal about it?