Michael Horace Barnes

Stages of Thought

The Co-Evolution of Religious Thought and Science

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a unique exploration of the relationship between religious and scientific thought. Arguing that these two modes of thought are complementary, Barnes delineates the successive stages of the co-evolution of religious and scientific thought in the West, from the preliterate culture of antiquity up to the present day.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9780195396270
• ISBN-10: 0195396278
• Artikelnr.: 26624246

Autorenporträt

Michael Horace Barnes is Professor of Religious Studies and Alumni Chair in Humanities, The University of Dayton.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1.: Culture and Cognition
2.: Addressing the Critics
3.: Cognitive Styles in Primitive Cultures
4.: Archaic Thought, Preliterate and Literate
5.: The Axial Age and the Classical Style of Thought
6.: Philosophy, Religion, and Science in Western Antiquity
7.: The Decline and Recovery of Classical Rationality in the West
8.: Early Modern Models of Reality in Science and Religion
9.: The Method of Modern Empirical Science
10.: Religious Responses to Modern Science
Notes
Bibliography
Index