Religion And The Rise Of Modern Science

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At a time when religion and science are seen by many to be antagonists locked in a battle to the death, Professor Hooykaas offers a startling proposition: modern science, he suggests, is in good part a product of the Judeo-Christian influence on western thought.
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Overview

At a time when religion and science are seen by many to be antagonists locked in a battle to the death, Professor Hooykaas offers a startling proposition: modern science, he suggests, is in good part a product of the Judeo-Christian influence on western thought.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781573830188
  • Publisher: Regent College Publishing
  • Publication date: 10/1/2000
  • Pages: 180
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.50 (h) x 0.41 (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction xi
I God and Nature 1
A. The Greek View 1
a. The Pre-Socratics 1
b. Plato 3
c. Aristotle 5
d. The Stoics 6
e. Galen 6
f. The Middle Ages 7
B. The Biblical View 7
C. Father, Maker and Creator of the World 9
D. The Mechanistic World Picture 13
E. The Mechanist's Critique of the Organismic World View 16
a. Basso 16
b. Boyle 17
F. The Radical Critique of Naturalism 19
a. Malebranche 20
b. Berkeley 22
c. Retrospect 25
II. Reason and Experience 29
A. Rationalism and Empiricism in Antiquity and the Middle Ages 29
a. Rationalism and Empiricism 29
b. The Rationalism of the Greek Philosophers 30
c. Scholastic Rationalism and its Mediaeval Critics 31
d. Nominalist Empiricism 32
B. Empiricism and Rationalism in the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century 35
a. Mathematical Empiricism of Galileo and Kepler 35
b. Natural-Historical Empiricism 36
c. Francis Bacon's Natural-Historical Empiricism 39
C. Cartesianism 41
a. Descartes' Theological Voluntarism 41
b. Descartes' Rationalism in Science 42
D. Empiricist Opposition to Descartes 44
a. Pascal 44
b. Boyle 46
c. Newton 49
d. Retrospect 51
III Nature and Art 54
A. The Contrast between Art and Nature 54
a. Techne incapable of equalling Physis 54
b. The Illegitimacy of competing with Nature 56
c. The Influence of the Separation of Art and Nature on Mechanics and Chemistry 56
d. Paracelsus 59
e. Art surpassing Nature 60
B. The Abolition of the Contrast between Art and Nature 61
a. The Transition from the Organistic to the Mechanistic World Picture 61
b. Bacon's Advocacy of the Power of Art 62
c. The Artificial Synthesis of Natural Compounds 65
d. Mechanism and Technology 66
C. The Dominion of Man over Nature 67
a. The Religious Vindication of the Right and the Duty to dominate Nature 67
b. Scientific Research as a Duty of Charity 69
c. Romantic Disapproval of Francis Bacon 72
IV The Rise of Experimental Science 75
A. The Evaluation of Manual Work and Experimentation in Antiquity 76
a. Manual Trades in Antiquity 76
b. Applied Science in Antiquity 78
c. The Engineers in Antiquity 80
d. Experimentation in Antiquity 82
B. The Judaeo-Christian Evaluation of Manual Work 83
a. Manual Trades in the Bible 83
b. Manual Trades and Experimentation in the Christian World 85
C. The Co-operation of Head and Hand in Early Modern Science 88
a. Mechanical and Liberal Arts in the Sixteenth Century 88
b. The Religious Sanction of Manual and Experimental Work 92
c. The Puritan Attitude to Experimental Science 94
V Science and the Reformation 98
A. The Influence of the Reformation on Science 98
a. The Protestants' Share in Scientific Research 98
b. Intramundame Asceticism and Scientific Activity 101
c. 'To the Glory of God' 105
d. Predestination and Determinism 107
e. The General Priesthood of Believers 109
B. Science and Biblical Exegesis 114
a. The Bible as a Source for Science 114
b. Calvin on Science and Scripture 117
c. Influence of Calvin's Accommodation Theory 122
d. Galileo on Scripture and the Motion of the Earth 124
e. John Wilkins on Bible and Science 126
f. Copernicanism and anti-Copernicanism amongst the Reformed 130
C. Puritanism and Science 135
a. The Character of Puritanism 135
b. Puritan Baconianism 139
c. An 'Age of Light' 141
d. Enthusiasm and Learning 144
Epilogue 161
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