When Science and Christianity Meet
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When Science and Christianity Meet

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When Science and Christianity Meet

About this book

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, Noah's 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
 

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Yes, you can access When Science and Christianity Meet by David C. Lindberg, Ronald L. Numbers, David C. Lindberg,Ronald L. Numbers in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Biological Sciences & History of Christianity. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Illustrations
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. 1 The Medieval Church Encounters the Classical Tradition: Saint Augustine, Roger Bacon, and the Handmaiden Metaphor
  6. 2 Galileo, the Church, and the Cosmos
  7. 3 Christianity and the Mechanistic Universe
  8. 4 Matter, Force, and the Christian Worldview in the Enlightenment
  9. 5 Noah’s Flood, the Ark, and the Shaping of Early Modern Natural History
  10. 6 Genesis and Geology Revisited: The Order of Nature and the Nature of Order in Nineteenth-Century Britain
  11. 7 “Men before Adam!”: American Debates over the Unity and Antiquity of Humanity
  12. 8 Re-placing Darwinism and Christianity
  13. 9 Science, Miracles, and the Prayer-Gauge Debate
  14. 10 Psychoanalysis and American Christianity, 1900-1945
  15. 11 The Scopes Trial in History and Legend
  16. 12 Science without God: Natural Laws and Christian Beliefs
  17. Notes
  18. A Guide to Further Reading
  19. Contributors
  20. Index