Science and Eastern Orthodoxy
Subtitle: from the Greek fathers to the age of globalization
By: Efthymios Nicolaidis
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781421402987
Subjects: Religion and science; Doctrines; Orthodox Eastern Church; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-239) and index.
Table of contents: title: The activist and the philosopher: the hexaemerons of Basil and of Gregory of Nyssa; title: Two conceptions of the world: the schools of Antioch and Alexandria; title: No icons, no science: the end of a tradition?; title: The return of Greek science: the first Byzantine humanism (ninth century to the twelfth century); title: Struggle for heritage: science in Nicea and the Byzantine Renaissance; title: The era of the palaiologos: political debates become scientific; title: True knowledge and ephemeral knowledge: the hesychast debate of the fourteenth century; title: Ancients versus moderns: Byzantium and Persian, Latin and Jewish sciences, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; title: The fall of the empire and the exodus to Italy, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; title: A rebel patriarch: Cyril Lucaris and Orthodox Humanism in science; title: Toward Russia: the Slavo-Greco-Latin academy and the Jerusalem patriarchate; title: Who were the heirs of the Hellenes?: science and the Greek Enlightenment; title: The scientific modernization of an Orthodox state: Greece from independence to membership in the European Union; title: Science and religion in the Greek state: materialism and Darwinism.