When Science and Christianity Meet

Name: When Science and Christianity Meet
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ISBN: 9780226482163

ISBN-10: 0226482162

ISBN-13: 9780226482163

Edition: 2008

Authors: David C. Lindberg, Ronald L. Numbers

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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 inWhen Science and Christianity Meetare 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,…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 9/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.90" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Medieval Church Encounters the Classical Tradition: Saint Augustine, Roger Bacon, and the Handmaiden Metaphor




Galileo, the Church, and the Cosmos




Christianity and the Mechanistic Universe




Matter, Force, and the Christian Worldview in the Enlightenment




Noah's Flood, the Ark, and the Shaping of Early Modern Natural History




Genesis and Geology Revisited: The Order of Nature and the Nature of Order in Nineteenth-Century Britain




"Men before Adam!": American Debates over the Unity and Antiquity of Humanity




Re-placing Darwinism and Christianity




Science, Miracles, and the Prayer-Gauge Debate




Psychoanalysis and American Christianity, 1900-45




The Scopes Trial in History and Legend




Science without God: Natural Laws and Christian Beliefs



Notes


A Guide to Further Reading


Contributors


Index