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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:When Science & Christianity Meetby David Lindberg
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Have science and Christianity been locked in mortal combat for the past 2000 years? Or has their relationship been one of peaceful coexistence, encouragement, and support? Both opinions have been vigorously defended, widely disseminated, and hotly debated. And both have been rejected by knowledgeable historians as unacceptable oversimplifications of the historical reality. This book steps back from those debates, abandoning, for the present, the attempt to formulate or defend generalizations of such breadth and scope. Its authors believe that every encounter had its own peculiar shape and that each must be examined uniquely before broader attempts at generalization are likely to succeed. This book, in language accessible to the general reader, investigates twelve of the most notorious, most interesting, and most instructive cases, aiming to tell each story in its historical specificity and local particularity. Among the episodes treated in When Science and Christianity Meet are the Galileo affair, the 17th-century clockwork universe, Noah's ark and flood in the development of natural history, struggles over Darwinian evolution, debates about the origin of the human species, and the Scopes trial. Readers will be introduced to St. Augustine, Roger Bacon, Pope Urban VIII, Isaac Newton, Pierre-Simon de Laplace, Carl Linnaeus, Charles Darwin, T. H. Huxley, Sigmund Freud, and many other participants in the historical drama of science and Christianity. Contributors: *William B. Ashworth Jr. *Thomas H. Broman *Janet Browne *Mott T. Greene *Edward J. Larson *David C. Lindberg *David N. Livingstone *Robert Bruce Mullin *G. Blair Nelson *Ronald L. Numbers *Jon H. Roberts Synopsis:This book, in language accessible to the general reader, investigates twelve of the most notorious, most interesting, and most instructive episodes involving the interaction between science and Christianity, aiming to tell each story in its historical specificity and local particularity. Among the events treated in When Science and Christianity Meet are the Galileo affair, the seventeenth-century clockwork universe, Noah's ark and flood in the development of natural history, struggles over Darwinian evolution, debates about the origin of the human species, and the Scopes trial. Readers will be introduced to St. Augustine, Roger Bacon, Pope Urban VIII, Isaac Newton, Pierre-Simon de Laplace, Carl Linnaeus, Charles Darwin, T. H. Huxley, Sigmund Freud, and many other participants in the historical drama of science and Christianity. “Taken together, these papers provide a comprehensive survey of current thinking on key issues in the relationships between science and religion, pitched—as the editors intended—at just the right level to appeal to students.”—Peter J. Bowler, Isis Synopsis:This book, in language accessible to the general reader, investigates twelve of the most notorious, most interesting, and most instructive episodes involving the interaction between science and Christianity, aiming to tell each story in its historical specificity and local particularity. Among the events treated in When Science and Christianity Meet are the Galileo affair, the seventeenth-century clockwork universe, Noah's ark and flood in the development of natural history, struggles over Darwinian evolution, debates about the origin of the human species, and the Scopes trial. Readers will be introduced to St. Augustine, Roger Bacon, Pope Urban VIII, Isaac Newton, Pierre-Simon de Laplace, Carl Linnaeus, Charles Darwin, T. H. Huxley, Sigmund Freud, and many other participants in the historical drama of science and Christianity. “Taken together, these papers provide a comprehensive survey of current thinking on key issues in the relationships between science and religion, pitchedas the editors intendedat just the right level to appeal to students.”Peter J. Bowler, Isis Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Medieval Church Encounters the Classical Tradition: Saint Augustine, Roger Bacon, and the Handmaiden Metaphor David C. Lindberg 2. Galileo, the Church, and the Cosmos David C. Lindberg 3. Christianity and the Mechanistic Universe William B. Ashworth Jr. 4. Matter, Force, and the Christian Worldview in the Enlightenment Thomas H. Broman 5. Noah's Flood, the Ark, and the Shaping of Early Modern Natural History Janet Browne 6. Genesis and Geology Revisited: The Order of Nature and the Nature of Order in Nineteenth-Century Britain Mott T. Greene 7. "Men before Adam!": American Debates over the Unity and Antiquity of Humanity G. Blair Nelson 8. Re-placing Darwinism and Christianity David N. Livingston 9. Science, Miracles, and the Prayer-Gauge Debate Robert Bruce Mullin 10. Psychoanalysis and American Christianity, 1900-45 Jon H. Roberts 11. The Scopes Trial in History and Legend Edward J. Larson 12. Science without God: Natural Laws and Christian Beliefs Ronald L. Numbers Notes A Guide to Further Reading Contributors Index What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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