James A Arieti, Patrick A Wilson

The Scientific & the Divine

Conflict and Reconciliation from Ancient Greece to the Present

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines the perennial issues that keep science and religion at arm's length, clarifies those issues, and fits them into an historical framework--from Plato, to Aquinas, to today's thinkers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 146mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 549g
• ISBN-13: 9780742513969
• ISBN-10: 0742513963
• Artikelnr.: 21102738

Autorenporträt

James A. Arieti is Graves H. Thompson Professor of Classics at Hampden-Sydney College. Patrick A. Wilson is associate professor of philosophy at Hampden-Sydney College.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Part One: Science and Religion Chapter 2 The Problem Chapter 3 Is
Human Reason Able to Explain the World? Chapter 4 What Is Science? Chapter
5 The Origin of Scientific Attempts to Explain the World Chapter 6 The God
of Ancient Philosophers Part 7 Part Two: Reconciling Science and Religion
Chapter 8 General Considerations Concerning the Reconciliation of Science
and Religion Chapter 9 Plato Chapter 10 Philo of Alexandria Chapter 11
Reconciling Science and Religion in Medieval Islam Chapter 12 Reconciling
Science and Religion in Medieval Judaism Chapter 13 Reconciling Science and
Religion in the Christian Middle Ages Chapter 14 Reconciling Science and
Religion from the Renaissance through the Enlightenment Chapter 15 Science
and Religion in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Chapter 16 Science
and Religion at the End of the Twentieth Century Chapter 17 Conclusion