Science and Christianity in Pulpit and Pew

AvRonald L. Numbers

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

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Ronald Numbers is one of the best known scholars of the relationship between science and religion. In this volume he collects seven of his published papers focusing on Christianity and science. The essays address broad topics such as the popularization of scientific ideas, secularization, and the development of the naturalistic worldview. One essay considers the writings of Charles Hodge, the most influential American Protestant theologian of the 19th century, revealing for the first time the central role that science played in his theology. Another deals with the demise of Bishop Ussher's "young earth" cosmology, especially among evangelical Christians. Taken together, these accessible and authoritative essays form a perfect introduction to Christian attitudes towards science since the 17th century.

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Utgivningsdatum:2007-09-20
Mått:231 x 155 x 12 mm
Vikt:337 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780195320381

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Ronald L. Numbers is Hilldale and William Coleman Professor of the History of Science and Medicine, University of Wisconsin.

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Once again Ronald Numbers opens the story of evolutionary thought in America to a wide audience. He has the capacity to lead readers to unexpected conclusions and to demonstrate that many of our most cherished assumptions about the debate over science and religion, the reception of evolution, and the reading of the Bible in the light of science and science in the light of the Bible must be re-examined and rethought. In this volume he is especially sensitive to the thinking of figures who have long remained unexamined. To read Numbers's scholarship is to come to the most welcome if unexpected experiences of historical enlightenment.

Innehållsförteckning

1: Science and Christianity Among the People: A Vulgar History 2: Science without God: Natural Laws and Christian beliefs 3: Reading the Book of Nature through American Lenses 4: Experiencing Evolution: Psychological Responses to the Claims of Science and Religion 5: Charles Hodge and the Beauties and Deformities of Science 6: "The Most Important Biblical Discovery of Our Time": William Henry Green and the Demise of Ussher's Chronology 7: Science, Secularization, and Privatization: A Concluding Note