When science & Christianity meet
By: edited by David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers
Contributors: Lindberg, David C; Numbers, Ronald L
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
Subjects: Religion and science -- History
Other titles: When science and Christianity meet
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-337) and index
Table of contents: title: The medieval church encounters the classical tradition : Saint Augustine, Roger Bacon, and the handmaiden metaphor / David C. Lindberg; title: Galileo, the Church, and the cosmos / David C. Lindberg; title: Christianity and the mechanistic universe / William B. Ashworth Jr.; title: Matter, force, and the Christian worldview in the Enlightenment / Thomas H. Broman; title: Noah's flood, the ark, and the shaping of early modern natural history / Janet Browne; title: Genesis and geology revisited : the order of nature and the nature of order in nineteenth-century Britain / Mott T. Greene; title: Men before Adam! : American debates over the unity and antiquity of humanity / G. Blair Nelson; title: Re-placing Darwinism and Christianity / David N. Livingstone; title: Science, miracles, and the prayer-gauge debate / Robert Bruce Mullin; title: Psychoanalysis and American Christianity, 1900-1945 / Jon H. Roberts; title: The Scopes Trial in history and legend / Edward J. Larson; title: Science without God : natural laws and Christian beliefs / Ronald L. Numbers