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Author : Stephen Prickett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002-03-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521009839
Stephen Prickett explores the 'narrative' in ways of thinking about the world over 300 years.
Author : Cheryl Petersen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0979545455
Science and religion are methods of discovering truth, they aren't truth in and of themselves. So, we go to God, another word for Truth, because we discover truth in Truth. The ideas in "from science & religion to God" show how we can use timeless spiritual truths to filter our information and find progressive knowledge. This book discusses how to use God's healing law, a law that has existed forever. "From science & religion to God" is a modern (briefer) narrative of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," written by Mary Baker Eddy in the 19th century. You can learn how to give mental treatments that balance the mind, body, and spirit.
Author : Peter Harrison
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226184487
Peter Harrison takes what we think we know about science and religion, dismantles it, and puts it back together again in a provocative new way. It is a mistake to assume, as most do, that the activities and achievements that are usually labeled religious and scientific have been more or less enduring features of the cultural landscape of the West. Harrison, by setting out the history of science and religion to see when and where they come into being and to trace their mutations over timereveals how distinctively Western and modern they are. Only in the past few hundred years have religious beliefs and practices been bounded by a common notion and set apart from the secular. And the idea of the natural sciences as discrete activities conducted in isolation from religious and moral concerns is even more recent, dating from the nineteenth century. Putting the so-called opposition between religion and science into historical perspective, as Harrison does here for the first time, has profound implications for our understanding of the present and future relations between them. "
Author : John P. Slattery
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780268106119
The Reverend John Augustine Zahm, CSC, (1851--1921) was a Holy Cross priest, an author, a South American explorer, and a science professor and vice president at the University of Notre Dame, the latter at the age of twenty-five. Through his scientific writings, Zahm argued that Roman Catholicism was fully compatible with an evolutionary view of biological systems. Ultimately Zahm’s ideas were not accepted in his lifetime and he was prohibited from discussing evolution and Catholicism, although he remained an active priest for more than two decades after his censure. In Faith and Science at Notre Dame: John Zahm, Evolution, and the Catholic Church, John Slattery charts the rise and fall of Zahm, examining his ascension to international fame in bridging evolution and Catholicism and shedding new light on his ultimate downfall via censure by the Congregation of the Index of Prohibited Books. Slattery presents previously unknown archival letters and reports that allow Zahm’s censure to be fully understood in the light of broader scientific, theological, and philosophical movements within the Catholic Church and around the world. Faith and Science at Notre Dame weaves together a vast array of threads to tell a compelling new story of the late nineteenth century. The result is a complex and thrilling tale of Neo-Scholasticism, Notre Dame, empirical science, and the simple faith of an Indiana priest. The book, which includes a new translation of the 1864 Syllabus of Errors, will appeal to those interested in Notre Dame and Catholic history, scholars of science and religion, and general readers seeking to understand the relationship between faith and science.
Author : Robert N. McCauley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199341542
A comparison of the cognitive foundations of religion and science and an argument that religion is cognitively natural and that science is cognitively unnatural.
Author : Barry David Schoub
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532687129
It has been said that science and religion aren’t friends. Indeed, science and scientists are preferably shunned in conservative religious circles. Seeing God through Science, however, emphatically dispels that notion. This book compellingly shows how science is, in point of fact, a potent support for religious faith. From the powerful, universal, biological drives of living organisms to the unimaginable vastness of the universe, science cogently frames the fundamental questions of meaning and purpose. Answers to these questions, however, lie outside science. It is solely through religious revelation that acceptable answers close the circle of enquiry into truth. In addition, examples from the sciences of genetics and cosmology illustrate the typical pattern of metascience, i.e. the process of science, which advances toward a frontier, only to generate further avenues of exploration, but never reaches a finality of knowledge. Thus, metascience steers enquiry to a supernatural reality, answerable only through religious revelation. This book shows how modern science is now entering a new phase, where what is unattainable by the science of nature constitutes a message to humankind that there exists a supernatural being who created, and controls, the universe. Modern science is now coming to prove God.
Author : Armin W. Geertz,Jeppe Sinding Jensen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317545491
'Religious Narrative, Cognition and Culture' brings together some of the world's leading scholars in the fields of cognitive science and comparative religion. The essays range across diverse fields: the neurological processes and possible genetic foundations of how language emerged; the possible phylogenetic routes in the development of language and culture; the complex interrelations between the ontogenesis and the sociogenesis of cognitive processes; the value of a combination of neurology, narratology and a reworked speech-act approach that focuses on narrative; how the psychology of ritual helps make narrative beliefs possible; religious narratives; emotional communication; the role of gossip as religious narrative; area studies of religious narrative and cognition in the Bible; Indian Epic literature; Australian Aboriginal mythology and ritual; modern religious forms such as New Age, Asatro, astrological narrative and virtual rituals in cyberspace.
Author : James C. Ungureanu
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 0822945819
The story of the “conflict thesis” between science and religion—the notion of perennial conflict or warfare between the two—is part of our modern self-understanding. As the story goes, John William Draper (1811–1882) and Andrew Dickson White (1832–1918) constructed dramatic narratives in the nineteenth century that cast religion as the relentless enemy of scientific progress. And yet, despite its resilience in popular culture, historians today have largely debunked the conflict thesis. Unravelling its origins, James Ungureanu argues that Draper and White actually hoped their narratives would preserve religious belief. For them, science was ultimately a scapegoat for a much larger and more important argument dating back to the Protestant Reformation, where one theological tradition was pitted against another—a more progressive, liberal, and diffusive Christianity against a more traditional, conservative, and orthodox Christianity. By the mid-nineteenth century, narratives of conflict between “science and religion” were largely deployed between contending theological schools of thought. However, these narratives were later appropriated by secularists, freethinkers, and atheists as weapons against all religion. By revisiting its origins, development, and popularization, Ungureanu ultimately reveals that the “conflict thesis” was just one of the many unintended consequences of the Protestant Reformation.
Author : Francisca Cho,Richard K. Squier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317435426
This book offers a Buddhist perspective on the conflict between religion and science in contemporary western society. Examining Buddhist history, authors Francisca Cho and Richard K. Squier offer a comparative analysis of Buddhist and western scientific epistemologies that transcends the limitations of non-Buddhist approaches to the subject of religion and science. The book is appropriate for undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers interested in comparative religion or in the intersection of religion and science and Buddhist Studies.
Author : Lisa L. Stenmark
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780739142882
Despite the increasing popularity of “religion and science” as an academic discourse, the intersection of science and religion remains a front line in an ongoing “culture war.” The reasons for this lie in an approach to discourse that closely resembles the model of discourse promoted by John Rawls, in which plural discourse —such as between religion and science— is based on a foundation of shared beliefs and established facts. This leads to a “doctrines and discoveries” approach to the relationship of religion and science, which focuses on their respective truth claims in an attempt to find areas of agreement. This framework inherently privileges scientific perspectives, which actually increases conflict between religion and science, and undermines public discourse by inserting absolutes into it. To the extent that the science and religion discourse adopts this approach, it inadvertently increases the conflict between religion and science and limits our ability to address matters of public concern. This book suggests an alternative model for discourse, a disputational friendship, based on the work of Hannah Arendt. This approach recognizes the role that authorities —and thus religion and science— play in public life, but undermines any attempt to privilege a particular authority, because it promotes the position of the storyteller, who never settles on a single story but always seeks to incorporate many particular stories into her account. A disputational friendship promotes storytelling not by seeking agreement, but by exploring areas of disagreement in order to create the space for more conversations and to generate more stories and additional interpretations. Successful discourse between religion and science is not measured by its ability to determine “truth” or “fact,” but by its ability to continually expand the discourse and promote public life and public judgment.
Author : Steven Hrotic
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781472527455
Religion in Science Fiction investigates the history of the representations of religion in science fiction literature. Space travel, futuristic societies, and non-human cultures are traditional themes in science fiction. Speculating on the societal impacts of as-yet-undiscovered technologies is, after all, one of the distinguishing characteristics of science fiction literature. A more surprising theme may be a parallel exploration of religion: its institutional nature, social functions, and the tensions between religious and scientific worldviews. Steven Hrotic investigates the representations of religion in 19th century proto-science fiction, and genre science fiction from the 1920s through the end of the century. Taken together, he argues that these stories tell an overarching story-a 'metanarrative'-of an evolving respect for religion, paralleling a decline in the belief that science will lead us to an ideal (and religion-free) future. Science fiction's metanarrative represents more than simply a shift in popular perceptions of religion: it also serves as a model for cognitive anthropology, providing new insights into how groups and identities form in a globalized world, and into how crucial a role narratives may play. Ironically, this same perspective suggests that science fiction, as it was in the 20th century, may no longer exist.
Author : Armin W. Geertz,Jeppe Sinding Jensen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Cognition
ISBN : 1845532945
Contains contributions dealing with religious narrative and cognitive theory written by some of the world's leading scholars in the fields of cognitive science, narratology and comparative religion. This title explores the neurological processes and possible genetic foundations of how language emerged in Homo sapiens.
Author : Frederick A. Kreuziger
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 087972367X
Science fiction captures contemporary sentiment with its faith in a scientific/technological future, its explorations of the ultimate meaning of man's existence. Kreuziger is interested particularly in the apocalyptic visions of science fiction compared to the biblical revelations of John and Daniel. For some time our confidence has been placed largely in science, which has practically become a religion. Science fiction articulates the consequences of a faith in a technological future.
Author : Jim R. Lewis,Olav Hammer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 940 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004216389
The present collection examines the many different ways in which religions appeal to the authority of science. The result is a wide-ranging and uniquely compelling study of how religions adapt their message to the challenges of the contemporary world.
Author : Thomas Suter Ackland
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9791041985609
"The Story of Creation as Told by Theology and by Science" is a book written by Thomas Suter Ackland. This work likely explores the narratives of creation as presented by both theological perspectives and scientific understandings. The author, Thomas Suter Ackland, likely delves into the intersections and divergences between religious accounts of creation and the scientific explanations offered by contemporary knowledge. The book may present an analysis of how different worldviews approach and interpret the concept of creation. It's common for such works to explore the relationship between religious beliefs and scientific theories, providing readers with insights into the ongoing dialogue between theology and science. For those interested in the intersection of religion and science, particularly regarding the creation narrative, "The Story of Creation as Told by Theology and by Science" could offer a thoughtful exploration of these two perspectives.