Science and religion : some historical perspectives

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Science and religion : some historical perspectives

John Hedley Brooke

(Canto classics)

Cambridge University Press, 2014

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First published 1991

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

John Hedley Brooke offers an introduction and critical guide to one of the most fascinating and enduring issues in the development of the modern world: the relationship between scientific thought and religious belief. It is common knowledge that in western societies there have been periods of crisis when new science has threatened established authority. The trial of Galileo in 1633 and the uproar caused by Darwin's Origin of Species (1859) are two of the most famous examples. Taking account of recent scholarship in the history of science, Brooke takes a fresh look at these and similar episodes, showing that science and religion have been mutually relevant in so rich a variety of ways that no simple generalizations are possible.

Table of Contents

  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Interaction between science and religion: some preliminary considerations
  • 2. Science and religion in the scientific revolution
  • 3. The parallel between scientific and religious reform
  • 4. Divine activity in a mechanical universe
  • 5. Science and religion in the enlightenment
  • 6. The fortunes and functions of natural theology
  • 7. Visions of the past: religious belief and the historical sciences
  • 8. Evolutionary theory and religious belief
  • Postscript: science and religion in the twentieth century
  • Bibliographic essay
  • Sources of quotations
  • Index.

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Details

  • NCID
    BB16757189
  • ISBN
    • 9781107664463
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Cambridge [England]
  • Pages/Volumes
    x, 566 p.
  • Size
    22 cm
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