By Gary B. Ferngren
Since its booklet in 2002, Science and Religion has confirmed to be a greatly widespread survey of the complicated dating of Western non secular traditions to technology from the start of the Christian period to the overdue 20th century. within the moment variation, 11 new essays extend the scope and increase the research of this enduringly renowned book.
Tracing the increase of technological know-how from its start within the medieval West in the course of the clinical revolution, the individuals right here check historic alterations in medical knowing caused by way of variations in physics, anthropology, and the neurosciences and significant shifts marked by means of the discoveries of Copernicus, Galileo, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, and others. In looking to savor the intersection of medical discovery and the responses of non secular teams, members additionally discover the theological implications of latest technology and review techniques similar to the Bible in technology and the fashionable synthesis in evolution, that are on the heart of debates within the historiography, realizing, and alertness of science.
The moment version presents chapters which have been revised to mirror present scholarship besides new chapters that convey clean views on a various variety of subject matters, together with new medical techniques and disciplines and non-Christian traditions reminiscent of Judaism, Islam, Asiatic religions, and atheism. This indispensible lecture room advisor is now extra worthwhile than ever before.
Contributors: Richard J. Blackwell, Peter J. Bowler, John Hedley Brooke, Glen M. Cooper, Edward B. Davis, Alnoor Dhanani, Diarmid A. Finnegan, Noah Efron, Owen Gingerich, Edward furnish, Steven J. Harris, Matthew S. Hedstrom, John Henry, Peter M. Hess, Edward J. Larsen, Timothy Larson, David C. Lindberg, David N. Livingstone, Craig Martin, Craig Sean McConnell, James Moore, Joshua M. Moritz, Mark A. Noll, Ronald L. Numbers, Richard Olson, Christopher M. Rios, Nicolaas A. Rupke, Michael H. Shank, Stephen David Snobelen, John Stenhouse, Peter J. Susalla, Mariusz Tabaczek, Alan C. Weissenbacher, Stephen P. Weldon, and Tomoko Yoshida
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