Science and Religion: Some Historical PerspectivesCambridge University Press, 2014 M05 15 John Hedley Brooke offers an introduction and critical guide to one of the most fascinating and enduring issues in the development of the modern world: the relationship between scientific thought and religious belief. It is common knowledge that in western societies there have been periods of crisis when new science has threatened established authority. The trial of Galileo in 1633 and the uproar caused by Darwin's Origin of Species (1859) are two of the most famous examples. Taking account of recent scholarship in the history of science, Brooke takes a fresh look at these and similar episodes, showing that science and religion have been mutually relevant in so rich a variety of ways that no simple generalizations are possible. |
Contenido
Science and Religion in the Scientific | 69 |
The Parallel between Scientific | 110 |
Divine Activity in a Mechanical Universe | 158 |
The Fortunes and Functions of Natural | 261 |
Religious Belief and | 307 |
Evolutionary Theory and Religious Belief | 374 |
Bibliographic Essay | 475 |
Sources of Quotations | 543 |
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