Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction

Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction

by Gary B. Ferngren (Editor)
Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction

Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction

by Gary B. Ferngren (Editor)

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Overview

Written by distinguished historians of science and religion, the thirty essays in this volume survey the relationship of Western religious traditions to science from the beginning of the Christian era to the late twentieth century. This wide-ranging collection also introduces a variety of approaches to understanding their intersection, suggesting a model not of inalterable conflict, but of complex interaction.

Tracing the rise of science from its birth in the medieval West through the scientific revolution, the contributors describe major shifts that were marked by discoveries such as those of Copernicus, Galileo, and Isaac Newton and the Catholic and Protestant reactions to them. They assess changes in scientific understanding brought about by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century transformations in geology, cosmology, and biology, together with the responses of both mainstream religious groups and such newer movements as evangelicalism and fundamentalism. The book also treats the theological implications of contemporary science and evaluates recent approaches such as environmentalism, gender studies, social construction, and postmodernism, which are at the center of current debates in the historiography, understanding, and application of science.

Contributors: Colin A. Russell, David B. Wilson, Edward Grant, David C. Lindberg, Alnoor Dhanani, Owen Gingerich, Richard J. Blackwell, Edward B. Davis, Michael P. Winship, John Henry, Margaret J. Osler, Richard S. Westfall, John Hedley Brooke, Nicolaas A. Rupke, Peter M. Hess, James Moore, Peter J. Bowler, Ronald L. Numbers, Steven J. Harris, Mark A. Noll, Edward J. Larson, Richard Olson, Craig Sean McConnell, Robin Collins, William A.Dembski, David N. Livingstone, Sara Miles, and Stephen P. Weldon.


About the Author:
Gary B. Ferngren is a professor of history at Oregon State University and general editor of The History of Science and Religion in the Western Tradition: An Encyclopedia.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781421412825
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 06/17/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 416
Sales rank: 753,100
File size: 3 MB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Gary B. Ferngren is a professor of history at Oregon State University and a professor of the history of medicine at First Moscow State Medical University. He is the author of Medicine and Religion: A Historical Introduction and Medicine and Health Care in Early Christianity.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I: Science and Religion: Conflict or Complexity?
Chapter 1. Science and Religion
Part II: The Premodern Period
Chapter 2. Aristotle and Aristotelianism
Chapter 3. Early Christian Attitudes toward Nature
Chapter 4. Science and Religion in Medieval Latin Christendom
Chapter 5. Islam
Part III: The Scientific Revolution
Chapter 6. The Copernican Revolution
Chapter 7. Galileo Galilei
Chapter 8. Early Modern Protestantism
Chapter 9. Isaac Newton
Chapter 10. Natural Theology
Part IV: Transformations in Geology, Biology, and Cosmology, 1650-1900
Chapter 11. Geology and Paleontology from 1700 to 1900
Chapter 12. Natural History
Chapter 13. Charles Darwin
Chapter 14. Evolution
Chapter 15. Cosmogonies
Part V: The Response of Religious Traditions
Chapter 16. The Bible and Science
Chapter 17. Roman Catholicism since Trent
Chapter 18. Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism
Chapter 19. The Scopes Trial
Chapter 20. Judaism and Sciences
Chapter 21. Modern Western Science and Asian Traditions
Chapter 22. Atheism
Part VI: The Theological Implications of Modern Science
Chapter 23. Physics
Chapter 24. Modern Cosmologies
Chapter 25. Causation
Chapter 26. The Modern Synthesis in Evolution
Chapter 27. Anthropology
Chapter 28. American Psychology
Chapter 29. Neuroscience and the Human Person
Chapter 30. Ecology and the Environment
Acknowledgments
Index

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Ann Blair

Ferngren offers us a selection of essays by leading specialists on the most important issues in the history of science and religion. I know of no other book that so gracefully introduces the reader to this burgeoning field.

Ann Blair, Harvard University

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