Science and religion : a historical introduction / edited by Gary B. Ferngren.

Date:
2017
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Publication/Creation

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.

Physical description

xiv, 484 pages ; 24 cm

Edition

Second Edition.

Contents

Part I. Science and religion : conflict or complexity? 1. Science and religion / Stephen P. Weldon -- Part II. The premodern period. 2. Aristotle and Aristotelianism / Edward Grant and Craig Martin ; 3. Early Christian attitudes toward nature / David C. Lindberg and Gary B. Ferngren ; 4. Medieval Latin Christendom / Michael H. Shank and David C. Lindberg ; 5. Islam / Alnoor Dhanani and Glen M. Cooper -- Part III. The scientific revolution. 6. The Copernican revolution / Owen Gingerich ; 7. Galileo Galilei / Richard J. Blackwell and Michael H. Shank ; 8. Early modern Protestantism / Edward B. Davis ; 9. Isaac Newton / Stephen David Snobelen ; 10. Natural theology / John Hedley Brooke -- Part IV. Transformations in geology, biology, and cosmology, 1650-1900. 11. Geology and paleontology / Nicolaas A. Rupke ; 12. Natural history / Peter M. Hess and John Henry ; 13. Charles Darwin / James Moore ; 14. Evolution / Peter J. Bowler and John Henry ; 15. Cosmogonies / Ronald L. Numbers and Peter J. Susalla -- Part V. The response of religious traditions. 16. The Bible and science / John Stenhouse ; 17. Roman Catholicism since Trent / Steven J. Harris and Mariusz Tabaczek ; 18. Evangelicalism and fundamentalism / Mark A. Noll and Christopher M. Rios ; 19. The Scopes trial / Edward J. Larson ; 20. Judaism / Noah Efron ; 21. Asian traditions / Tomoko Yoshida and Stephen P. Weldon ; 22. Atheism / John Henry -- Part VI . The theological implications of modern science. 23. Physics / Richard Olson ; 24. Modern cosmologies / Craig Sean McConnell ; 25. Causation / John Henry and Mariusz Tabaczek ; 26. The modern synthesis in evolution / Joshua M. Moritz ; 27. Anthropology / Timothy Larson ; 28. American psychology / Matthew S. Hedstrom ; 29. Neuroscience and the human person / Alan C. Weissenbacher ; 30. Ecology and the environment / David N. Livingstone and Diarmid A. Finnegan.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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  • 9781421421728
  • 1421421720