Science and religion, 1450-1900 : from Copernicus to Darwin /
Olson, Richard, 1940-
Science and religion, 1450-1900 : from Copernicus to Darwin / Science & religion, 1450-1900 Richard G. Olson. - Johns Hopkins paperbacks edition. - Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2004 - xvii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Originally published: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-279) and index.
Introduction. Galileo and the Church, or, How do science and religion interact? -- The conflict model -- The case of the Galileo affair -- Three additional special cases of conflict -- Modern claims that religion supports science -- Religion and the transition to "modern" science : Christian demands for useful knowledge -- The starting point : late Medieval science -- Challenges to Medieval science -- Christian humanism and the Hermetic Corpus -- The life and works of Paracelsus -- Christian utopias and the institutions for modern science -- Science and Catholicism in the scientific revolution, 1550-1770 -- Science and the Council of Trent -- Jesuit science -- Catholics and the mechanical philosophy : Mersenne, Descartes, and Gassendi -- The special case of Blaise Pascal -- Science and religion in England, 1590-1740 -- The Anglican focus on natural theology -- The Puritan approach to natural knowledge -- The origins of Anglican mechanical philosophy -- The Anti-materialist response to Hobbes -- Newton's religion, Newtonian religions, and eighteenth-century reactions -- Newton's science and reputation -- Newton and prophecy interpretation -- Newtonian religion -- John Locke and the rise of Deism -- Reactions against Newtonian natural theology -- Scientific understandings of religion and religious understandings of science, 1700-1859 -- Early anthropological approaches to religion -- Religion and the emotions -- Immanuel Kant's separation of scientific knowledge from religious faith -- The post-Kantian tradition in German theology : Schleiermacher and Hegel -- A new anthropology of religion : Feuerbach -- David Strauss and the use of science to reject evangelical Christianity -- Auguste Comte's "Religion of humanity" -- Scottish common sense philosophy calls for a scientific religion and a religious science -- Back to the beginnings-- of the Earth, of life, and of humankind, 1680-1859 -- Mosaic geology -- Secular geology and the age of the earth -- Accounting for change over time -- Buffon -- Lamarck -- The vestiges of the natural history of creation -- What to do about Darwin? The character of Charles Darwin's On the origin of species -- Initial Anglo-American religious responses to Darwin -- Darwinism and concerns about scientific naturalism -- Anglo-American Protestant responses to Darwin after 1875 -- Anglo-American Catholic and Jewish responses to evolution -- Primary sources -- Hermes Trismagistus : Hermetica -- Richard Hooker : The laws of ecclesiastical polity in eight books -- Robert Boyle : "A free inquiry into the vulgarly conceived notion of nature" -- John Ray : The wisdom of God manifested in the works of creation -- Thomas Burnet : The theory of the earth -- David Hume : The natural history of religion -- Ludwig Feuerbach : The essence of Christianity -- John William Draper : History of the conflict between religion and science -- James McCosh : The religious aspect of evolution.
"Galileo, Newton, Darwin. These giants are remembered for their contributions to science. Often forgotten, however, is the profound influence that Christianity had on their lives and work. This study explores the many ways in which religion - its ideas, attitudes, practices, and institutions - interacted with science from the beginnings of the scientific revolution to the end of the nineteenth century"--Jacket.
0801884004 9780801884009
2005936770
Religion and science--History.
BL245 / .O47 2006
ARCH YNDC 261.55 O52S
Science and religion, 1450-1900 : from Copernicus to Darwin / Science & religion, 1450-1900 Richard G. Olson. - Johns Hopkins paperbacks edition. - Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2004 - xvii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Originally published: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-279) and index.
Introduction. Galileo and the Church, or, How do science and religion interact? -- The conflict model -- The case of the Galileo affair -- Three additional special cases of conflict -- Modern claims that religion supports science -- Religion and the transition to "modern" science : Christian demands for useful knowledge -- The starting point : late Medieval science -- Challenges to Medieval science -- Christian humanism and the Hermetic Corpus -- The life and works of Paracelsus -- Christian utopias and the institutions for modern science -- Science and Catholicism in the scientific revolution, 1550-1770 -- Science and the Council of Trent -- Jesuit science -- Catholics and the mechanical philosophy : Mersenne, Descartes, and Gassendi -- The special case of Blaise Pascal -- Science and religion in England, 1590-1740 -- The Anglican focus on natural theology -- The Puritan approach to natural knowledge -- The origins of Anglican mechanical philosophy -- The Anti-materialist response to Hobbes -- Newton's religion, Newtonian religions, and eighteenth-century reactions -- Newton's science and reputation -- Newton and prophecy interpretation -- Newtonian religion -- John Locke and the rise of Deism -- Reactions against Newtonian natural theology -- Scientific understandings of religion and religious understandings of science, 1700-1859 -- Early anthropological approaches to religion -- Religion and the emotions -- Immanuel Kant's separation of scientific knowledge from religious faith -- The post-Kantian tradition in German theology : Schleiermacher and Hegel -- A new anthropology of religion : Feuerbach -- David Strauss and the use of science to reject evangelical Christianity -- Auguste Comte's "Religion of humanity" -- Scottish common sense philosophy calls for a scientific religion and a religious science -- Back to the beginnings-- of the Earth, of life, and of humankind, 1680-1859 -- Mosaic geology -- Secular geology and the age of the earth -- Accounting for change over time -- Buffon -- Lamarck -- The vestiges of the natural history of creation -- What to do about Darwin? The character of Charles Darwin's On the origin of species -- Initial Anglo-American religious responses to Darwin -- Darwinism and concerns about scientific naturalism -- Anglo-American Protestant responses to Darwin after 1875 -- Anglo-American Catholic and Jewish responses to evolution -- Primary sources -- Hermes Trismagistus : Hermetica -- Richard Hooker : The laws of ecclesiastical polity in eight books -- Robert Boyle : "A free inquiry into the vulgarly conceived notion of nature" -- John Ray : The wisdom of God manifested in the works of creation -- Thomas Burnet : The theory of the earth -- David Hume : The natural history of religion -- Ludwig Feuerbach : The essence of Christianity -- John William Draper : History of the conflict between religion and science -- James McCosh : The religious aspect of evolution.
"Galileo, Newton, Darwin. These giants are remembered for their contributions to science. Often forgotten, however, is the profound influence that Christianity had on their lives and work. This study explores the many ways in which religion - its ideas, attitudes, practices, and institutions - interacted with science from the beginnings of the scientific revolution to the end of the nineteenth century"--Jacket.
0801884004 9780801884009
2005936770
Religion and science--History.
BL245 / .O47 2006
ARCH YNDC 261.55 O52S