Catholicism And Science

Author : Peter M.J Hess,Paul L. Allen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780313021954

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Catholicism and Science by Peter M.J Hess,Paul L. Allen Pdf

When most people think about Catholicism and science, they will automatically think of one of the famous events in the history of science - the condemnation of Galileo by the Roman Catholic Church. But the interaction of Catholics with science has been - and is - far more complex and positive than that depicted in the legend of the Galileo affair. Understanding the natural world has always been a strength of Catholic thought and research - from the great theologians of the Middle Ages to the present day - and science has been a hallmark of Catholic education for centuries. Catholicism and Science, a volume in the Greenwood Guides to Science and Religion series, covers all aspects of the relationship of science and the Church: How Catholics interacted with the profound changes in the physical sciences (natural philosophy) and biological sciences (natural history) during the Scientific Revolution; how Catholic scientists reacted to the theory of evolution and their attempts to make evolution compatible with Catholic theology; and the implications of Roman Catholic doctrinal and moral teachings for neuroscientific research, and for investigation into genetics and cloning. The volume includes primary source documents, a glossary and timeline of important events, and an annotated bibliography of the most useful works for further research

Author : Benjamin Wiker
Publisher : TAN Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780895559425

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The Catholic Church & Science by Benjamin Wiker Pdf

Were the Middle Ages dark for science? Did the pope say Darwin was right? From the Big Bang to Galileo, from the origins of life on Earth to the existence of life on other planets, The Catholic Church and Science clears away the fog of falsehood and misunderstanding to reveal a faith whose doctrines do not contradict the facts of science, but harmonize with them and a universe whose uncanny order and precision point not to chance assemblage by random forces, but to the purpose-built design of an intelligent creator. Author Ben Wiker (The Darwin Myth, A Meaningful World) takes on the most common errors that modern materialistic thinkers, convinced that faith and science must be mortal enemies, have foisted into popular culture. With great learning, clarity, and wit he tackles stubborn confusions many people have about the relationship between Christianity especially Catholicism and the empirical sciences, and separates truth from lies, the factual from the fanciful.

Author : Guy Consolmagno, SJ,Paul Mueller, SJ
Publisher : Image
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780804136969

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Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial? by Guy Consolmagno, SJ,Paul Mueller, SJ Pdf

Witty and thought provoking, two Vatican astronomers shed provocative light on some of the strange places where religion and science meet. “Imagine if a Martian showed up, all big ears and big nose like a child’s drawing, and he asked to be baptized. How would you react?” —Pope Francis, May, 2014 Pope Francis posed that question—without insisting on an answer!—to provoke deeper reflection about inclusiveness and diversity in the Church. But it's not the first time that question has been asked. Brother Guy Consolmagno and Father Paul Mueller hear questions like that all the time. They’re scientists at the Vatican Observatory, the official astronomical research institute of the Catholic Church. In Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial? they explore a variety of questions at the crossroads of faith and reason: How do you reconcile the The Big Bang with Genesis? Was the Star of Bethlehem just a pious religious story or an actual description of astronomical events? What really went down between Galileo and the Catholic Church—and why do the effects of that confrontation still reverberate to this day? Will the Universe come to an end? And… could you really baptize an extraterrestrial? With disarming humor, Brother Guy and Father Paul explore these questions and more over the course of six days of dialogue. Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial will make you laugh, make you think, and make you reflect more deeply on science, faith, and the nature of the universe.

Author : Christopher T. Baglow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Religion and science
ISBN : 193923199X

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Faith, Science, and Reason by Christopher T. Baglow Pdf

Author : Peter M.J Hess,Paul L. Allen
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780313331909

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Catholicism and Science by Peter M.J Hess,Paul L. Allen Pdf

Explores the relationship between science and the Catholic church throughout history.

Author : Stacy A. Trasancos
Publisher : Ave Maria Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781594719059

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Particles of Faith by Stacy A. Trasancos Pdf

Ask a young Catholic why they are walking away from the Church and one of the main reasons is usually a perceived conflict between science and Christianity. The student edition of Particles of Faith: A Catholic Guide to Navigating Science aims to help Catholic high school students find real answers to real questions about the interaction of science and faith. What is the origin of life? Does the Big Bang prove God? Can a Christian accept the theory of evolution? Teacher and scientist Dr. Stacy A. Trasancos—who converted to Catholicism while confronting similar concerns about science and faith—addresses these and many other probing questions in the student edition of Particles of Faith, a book designed for use in a high school theology or science course. At the end of the book, students will be able to not only answer key questions about the faith but also to explain those answers to others. The Particles of Faith Teacher Resource Guide can be found online in the Classroom Resource section of the Ave Maria Press website and helps teachers adapt the book’s material as a separate unit in regularly-scheduled courses such as morality, social justice, life science, or in in chemistry and physics courses. Lesson plans in the Particles of Faith Teacher Resource Guide include quizzes and tests. Trasancos also has produced videos with related content in conjunction with Bishop Robert Barron and Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. She employs encyclicals such as Pope Francis’s Laudato Sí, the deep reflections of theologians such as St. Thomas Aquinas, and the exacting work of Catholic scientists such as Fr. Georges Lemaître—who proposed the game-changing Big Bang theory—to show how science and faith are interwoven lights meant to guide students on the path to truth. Trasancos also explains how the Catholic faith and science work together to reveal the truth of Christ through the beauty of his creation. She leads with the understanding that science awakens the wonders of the foundational statement of the faith: that God is Creator of all, seen and unseen.

Author : Brandon Vogt
Publisher : Ave Maria Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781594717680

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Why I Am Catholic (and You Should Be Too) by Brandon Vogt Pdf

Winner of a 2018 Catholic Press Association Award: Popular Presentation of the Catholic Faith. (First Place). With atheism on the rise and millions tossing off religion, why would anyone consider the Catholic Church? Brandon Vogt, a bestselling author and the content director for Bishop Robert Barron’s Word on Fire Catholic Ministries, shares his passionate search for truth, a journey that culminated in the realization that Catholicism was right about a lot of things, maybe even everything. His persuasive case for the faith reveals a vision of Catholicism that has answers our world desperately needs and reminds those already in the Church what they love about it. A 2016 study by the Public Religion Research Institute found that 25 percent of adults (39 percent of young adults) describe themselves as unaffiliated with any religion. Millions of these so-called “nones” have fled organized religion and many more have rejected God altogether. Brandon Vogt was one of those nones. When he converted to Catholicism in college, he knew how confusing that decision was to many of his friends and family. But he also knew that the evidence he discovered pointed to one conclusion: Catholicism is true. To his delight, he discovered it was also exceedingly good and beautiful. Why I Am Catholic traces Vogt’s spiritual journey, making a refreshing, twenty-first century case for the faith and answering questions being asked by agnostics, nones, and atheists, the audience for his popular website, StrangeNotions.com, where Catholics and atheists dialogue. With references to Catholic thinkers such as G. K. Chesterton, Ven. Fulton Sheen, St. Teresa of Calcutta, and Bishop Robert Barron, Vogt draws together lines of evidence to help seekers discover why they should be Catholic as an alternative. Why I Am Catholic serves as a compelling reproposal of the Church for former Catholics, a persuasive argument for truth and beauty to those who have become jaded and disenchanted with religion, and at the same time offers practicing Catholics a much-needed dose of confidence and clarity to affirm their faith against an increasingly skeptical culture.

Author : Martin Stanislaus Brennan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Catholic Church and science
ISBN : HARVARD:HNY8RX

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What Catholics Have Done for Science by Martin Stanislaus Brennan Pdf

Author : John Augustine Zahm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Catholic Church and science
ISBN : HARVARD:HNMHEL

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The Catholic Church and Modern Science by John Augustine Zahm Pdf

Author : Marcus Hellyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015063322229

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Catholic Physics by Marcus Hellyer Pdf

Examines the changing character of natural philosophy in Jesuit colleges and universities in German lands.

Author : Martin Stanislaus Brennan
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 0282431772

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What Catholics Have Done for Science by Martin Stanislaus Brennan Pdf

Excerpt from What Catholics Have Done for Science: With Sketches of the Great Catholic Scientists The purpose of this little book is, by showing their utter-falsity, to refute two wide-spread notions. One of these notions is, that when a man devotes himself to science he must necessarily cease to be a Christian; and the other, that the Catholic Church is hostile to scientific progress. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Don O'Leary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Religion and science
ISBN : 1501397761

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Roman Catholicism and Modern Science by Don O'Leary Pdf

In the popular imagination, historical relations between the Roman Catholic Church and modern science are best epitomized in the case of Galileo Galilei. Condemned in 1633 for advancing the theory of a moving earth and a stationary sun, he was only exonerated in 1992. Yet apart from relatively few and specialized studies, there have been no extensive historical treatments of Catholic attitudes toward science after Galileo. Roman Catholicism and Modern Science is the first general history of the reactions of the Roman Catholic Church to developments in the natural sciences from about 1800 to the dawn of the twenty-first century.While Galileo's heliocentric universe had challenged the "inerrancy" of the Bible, Darwin's theory challenged the direct and immediate creation of the first humans. Through O'Leary's cast of characters-popes from Pius IX to John Paul II, polemicists like Thomas Henry Huxley and Irish physicist John Tyndall, and Catholic apologists and scientists like St. George Jackson Mivart-we get a clear picture of the back and forth volleys between representatives of the scientific and ecclesiastical establishments as well as within each of those establishments. Besides evolution, a wide range of other issues receives attention, including agnosticism, biblical criticism, the philosophy and professionalization of science, the nature of Catholic dogma vis-à-vis science and of intellectual freedom vis-à-vis faith and ecclesiastical authority. Many of these issues achieved a certain resolution in the years before and after the Second Vatican Council. However, toward the end of the twentieth century, new issues facing the church and global society emerged with a new variety and urgency, with environmental concerns, on the one hand, and portentous developments in the biological sciences, on the other, including contraception, "in vitro" fertilization, gene therapy, experimentation on embryos, and organ transplantation. O'Leary explains the intricacies of all of these issues clearly and fairly, though their ultimate resolution may take decades to achieve."Roman Catholicism and Modern Science is a fascinating and reliable account. It makes an important contribution to modern church history as well as to the present dialogue of science and religion."-America Magazine"From Galileo and bioethics to the "Syllabus of Errors" and Pope John Paul's philosophy of science, O'Leary's synthesis of history and science is fascinating to read and intellectually enlightening. a sourcebook to understanding the complex dynamic between faith and reason." -Library Journal"Don O'Leary has written a bold and sweeping history of the interactions of the Roman Catholic Church with modern scientific thought. This book is deeply researched and thoughtfully argued. It will become the standard work on the subject and will because of its strengths generate both controversy and new research. It is a remarkable achievement." -Frank M. Turner, John Hay Whitney Professor of History, Yale University.

Author : Ronald L. Numbers
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674057418

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Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion by Ronald L. Numbers Pdf

If we want nonscientists and opinion-makers in the press, the lab, and the pulpit to take a fresh look at the relationship between science and religion, Ronald L. Numbers suggests that we must first dispense with the hoary myths that have masqueraded too long as historical truths. Until about the 1970s, the dominant narrative in the history of science had long been that of science triumphant, and science at war with religion. But a new generation of historians both of science and of the church began to examine episodes in the history of science and religion through the values and knowledge of the actors themselves. Now Ronald Numbers has recruited the leading scholars in this new history of science to puncture the myths, from Galileo’s incarceration to Darwin’s deathbed conversion to Einstein’s belief in a personal God who “didn’t play dice with the universe.” The picture of science and religion at each other’s throats persists in mainstream media and scholarly journals, but each chapter in Galileo Goes to Jail shows how much we have to gain by seeing beyond the myths.

Author : James Walsh
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781625580030

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Catholic Churchmen in Science by James Walsh Pdf

Sketches of the Lives of Catholic Ecclesiastics who were among the Great Founders in Science. James Joseph Walsh was an American physician and author.

Author : Miguel de Asúa
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110488777

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Science and Catholicism in Argentina (1750–1960) by Miguel de Asúa Pdf

Science and Catholicism in Argentina (1750–1960) is the first comprehensive study on the relationship between science and religion in a Spanish-speaking country with a Catholic majority and a "Latin" pattern of secularisation. The text takes the reader from Jesuit missionary science in colonial times, through the conflict-ridden 19th century, to the Catholic revival of the 1930s in Argentina. The diverse interactions between science and religion revealed in this analysis can be organised in terms of their dynamic of secularisation. The indissoluble identification of science and the secular, which operated at rhetorical and institutional levels among the liberal elite and the socialists in the 19th century, lost part of its force with the emergence of Catholic scientists in the course of the 20th century. In agreement with current views that deny science the role as the driving force of secularisation, this historical study concludes that it was the process of secularisation that shaped the interplay between religion and science, not the other way around.