Creation: the impact of an idea.
By: Edited by Daniel O'Connor and Francis Oakley.
Contributors: Oakley, Francis, joint comp.
Series: Scribner source books in religion
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 1969
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
Subjects: Creation; Theology
Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.
Table of contents: title: Nature. Introduction: two philosophies of nature, by D. O'Connor. The Christian doctrine of creation and the rise of modern natural science, by M. Foster. Christian theology and the Newtonian science: the rise of the concept of the laws of nature, by F. Oakley. What accelerated technological progress in the Western Middle Ages? By L. White, Jr.; title: Man. Introduction: the human and the divine, by D. O'Connor. The problem of time, by E. Brunner. Letter and spirit, by E. Frank. Christian optimism, by E. Gilson.; title: Society. Introduction: the sacral norm, by F. Oakley. Kingship in Israel and in Babylon, by A. T. van Leeuwen. Christianity changes the conditions of government, by N. Fustel de Coulanges. The Western church and the post-Roman world, by T. M. Parker. Medieval canon law and Western constitutionalism, by B. Tierney. Epilogue. Jewish and Christian elements in the Western philosophical tradition, by H. Jonas. An introductory bibliography: p. 259-262.