When Science and Christianity Meet by David C. Lindberg (English) Hardcover Book

Description: When Science and Christianity Meet by David C. Lindberg, Ronald L. Numbers Investigates twelve of the instructive episodes involving the interaction between science and Christianity, aiming to tell each story in its historical specificity and local particularity. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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, Noahs 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 Flap 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, Noahs 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 Author Biography David C. Lindberg is the Hilldale Professor Emeritus of the History of Science at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Ronald L. Numbers is the Hilldale Professor of the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Together, Lindberg and Numbers edited God and Nature: Historical Essays on the Encounter between Christianity and Science and are currently editing the Cambridge History of Science. Table of Contents List 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. Noahs 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 Review "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" Review Quote "With its illustrations, extended endnotes and annotated guide to further readings, the book reviews old questions in a thoroughly enlightening scholarly and interesting way."-Carl S. Keener,Christian Century Details ISBN0226482146 Short Title WHEN SCIENCE & CHRISTIANITY ME Language English ISBN-10 0226482146 ISBN-13 9780226482149 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY 261.55 Illustrations Yes Year 2003 Imprint University of Chicago Press Place of Publication Chicago, IL Country of Publication United States Edited by David C. Lindberg Author Ronald L. Numbers Series Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing DOI 10.1604/9780226482149 UK Release Date 2003-10-29 AU Release Date 2003-10-29 NZ Release Date 2003-10-29 US Release Date 2003-10-29 Pages 368 Publisher The University of Chicago Press Publication Date 2003-10-29 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161779029;

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