When Science & Christianity Meet Hardcover - 2003
by David C. Lindberg (Editor); Ronald L. Numbers (Editor)
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According to widespread popular belief, the period of European history known as the Middle Ages or medieval period (roughly the years 450-1450) was a time of barbarism, ignorance, and superstition.
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Have science and Christianity been locked in mortal combat for the past 2000 years? Or has their relationship been one of peaceful coexistence, encouragement, and support? Both opinions have been vigorously defended, widely disseminated, and hotly debated. And both have been rejected by knowledgeable historians as unacceptable oversimplifications of the historical reality. This book steps back from those debates, abandoning, for the present, the attempt to formulate or defend generalizations of such breadth and scope. Its authors believe that every encounter had its own peculiar shape and that each must be examined uniquely before broader attempts at generalization are likely to succeed. This book, in language accessible to the general reader, investigates twelve of the most notorious, most interesting, and most instructive cases, aiming to tell each story in its historical specificity and local particularity. Among the episodes treated in When Science and Christianity Meet are the Galileo affair, the 17th-century clockwork universe, Noah's ark and flood in the development of natural history, struggles over Darwinian evolution, debates about the origin of the human species, and the Scopes trial. Readers will be introduced to St. Augustine, Roger Bacon, Pope Urban VIII, Isaac Newton, Pierre-Simon de Laplace, Carl Linnaeus, Charles Darwin, T. H. Huxley, Sigmund Freud, and many other participants in the historical drama of science and Christianity. Contributors:
*William B. Ashworth Jr.
*Thomas H. Broman
*Janet Browne
*Mott T. Greene
*Edward J. Larson
*David C. Lindberg
*David N. Livingstone
*Robert Bruce Mullin
*G. Blair Nelson
*Ronald L. Numbers
*Jon H. Roberts
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- Title When Science & Christianity Meet
- Author David C. Lindberg (Editor); Ronald L. Numbers (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 357
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
- Date October 29, 2003
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780226482149 / 0226482146
- Weight 1.51 lbs (0.68 kg)
- Dimensions 9.46 x 6.24 x 1.15 in (24.03 x 15.85 x 2.92 cm)
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Themes
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Library of Congress subjects Religion and science - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002155569
- Dewey Decimal Code 261.55
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- Choice, 09/01/2004, Page 123
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