The future of reason, science and faith : following modernity and post-modernity / J. Andrew Kirk.

Aldershot ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2007], ©2007.

vii, 256 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-252) and index.

An enigma and an idea -- An enquiry into the origins of modern science -- The turn to rationalism : justification by reason alone? -- The turn to empiricism : knowledge through science alone? -- The turn to historicism -- The turn to language -- The world in transit : between arrival and departure (part one) -- The world in transit : between arrival and departure (part two) -- Regaining a lost opportunity : the preconditions -- Regaining a lost opportunity : the conditions -- Summing up : the story, the enigma, the solution.