Download Full eBooks in PDF
The Sciences And Theology In The Twentieth Century Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of The Sciences And Theology In The Twentieth Century book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Author : Arthur Robert Peacocke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Religion
ISBN : IND:30000011807264
Papers from the Oxford International Symposium, held at Christ Church College in Sept. 1979. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author : Peter J. Bowler
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226068596
Although much has been written about the vigorous debates over science and religion in the Victorian era, little attention has been paid to their continuing importance in early twentieth-century Britain. Reconciling Science and Religion provides a comprehensive survey of the interplay between British science and religion from the late nineteenth century to World War II. Peter J. Bowler argues that unlike the United States, where a strong fundamentalist opposition to evolutionism developed in the 1920s (most famously expressed in the Scopes "monkey trial" of 1925), in Britain there was a concerted effort to reconcile science and religion. Intellectually conservative scientists championed the reconciliation and were supported by liberal theologians in the Free Churches and the Church of England, especially the Anglican "Modernists." Popular writers such as Julian Huxley and George Bernard Shaw sought to create a non-Christian religion similar in some respects to the Modernist position. Younger scientists and secularists—including Rationalists such as H. G. Wells and the Marxists—tended to oppose these efforts, as did conservative Christians, who saw the liberal position as a betrayal of the true spirit of their religion. With the increased social tensions of the 1930s, as the churches moved toward a neo-orthodoxy unfriendly to natural theology and biologists adopted the "Modern Synthesis" of genetics and evolutionary theory, the proposed reconciliation fell apart. Because the tensions between science and religion—and efforts at reconciling the two—are still very much with us today, Bowler's book will be important for everyone interested in these issues.
Author : Graham Oppy,N. N. Trakakis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317546382
The twentieth century saw religion challenged by the rise of science and secularism, a confrontation which resulted in an astonishingly diverse range of philosophical views about religion and religious belief. Many of the major philosophers of the twentieth century - James, Bergson, Russell, Wittgenstein, Ayer, Heidegger, and Derrida - significantly engaged with religious thought. Idiosyncratic thinkers, such as Whitehead, Levinas and Weil, further contributed to the extraordinary diversity of philosophical investigation of religion across the century. In their turn, leading theologians and religious philosophers - notably Buber, Tillich and Barth - directly engaged with the philosophy of religion. Later, philosophy of religion became a distinct field of study, led by the work of Hick, Alston, Plantinga, and Swinburne. "Twentieth-Century Philosophy of Religion" provides an accessible overview of the major strands in the rich tapestry of twentieth-century thought about religion and will be an indispensible resource for any interested in contemporary philosophy of religion.
Author : John Macquarrie
Publisher : Bloomsbury T&T Clark
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UVA:X004586514
An enduring resource for steering through the world of modern theology, including a new section on postmodernism and religious thought.
Author : David F. Ford
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781118834961
This popular text has been updated to ensure that it continues to provide a current and comprehensive overview of the main Christian theologies of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Each chapter is written by a leading theologian and gives a clear picture of a particular movement, topic or individual. New and updated treatments of topics covered in earlier editions, with over half the chapters new to this edition or revised by new authors. New section singling out six classic theologians of the twentieth century. Expanded treatment of the natural sciences, gender, Roman Catholic theology since Vatican II, and African, Asian and Evangelical theologies. Completely new chapters on spirituality, pastoral theology, philosophical theology, postcolonial biblical interpretation, Pentecostal theology, Islam and Christian theology, Buddhism and Christian theology, and theology and film. As in previous editions, the text opens with a full introduction to modern theology. Epilogue discussing the present situation and prospects of Christian theology in the twenty-first century.
Author : John Polkinghorne
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300130676
divdivIn this captivating book, one of the most highly regarded scientist-theologians of our time explores aspects of the interaction of science and theology. John Polkinghorne defends the place of theology in the university (it is part of the human search for truth) and discusses the role of revelation in religion (it is a record of experience and not the communication of unchallengeable propositions). Throughout his thought-provoking conversation, Polkinghorne speaks with an honesty and openness that derives from his many years of experience in scientific research. A central concern of Polkinghorne’s collection of writings is to reconcile what science can say about the processes of the universe with theology’s belief in a God active within creation. The author examines two related concepts in depth. The first is the divine self-limitation involved in creation that leads to an important reappraisal of the traditional claim that God does not act as a cause among causes. The other is the nature of time and God’s involvement with it, an issue that Polkinghorne shows can link metascience and theological understandings. In the final section of the book, the author reviews three centuries of the science and theology debate and assesses the work of major contemporary contributors to the discussion: Wolfhart Pannenberg, Thomas Torrance, and Paul Davies. He also considers why the science-theology discussion has for several centuries been a particular preoccupation of the English. /DIV/DIV
Author : John Polkinghorne
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300156096
Just as gendered, cultural, and geographical perspectives have illuminated and advanced theological thought, the contributions of twentieth-century science have much to offer theology. In his latest book, physicist-theologian John Polkinghorne, renowned as one of the world's foremost thinkers on science and religion, offers a lucid argument for developing the intersection of the two fields as another form of contextual theology. Countering recent assertions by new atheists that religious belief is irrational and even dangerous, Polkinghorne explores ways that theology can be open to and informed by science. He describes recent scientific discourse on such subjects as epistemology, objectivity, uncertainty, and rationality and considers the religious importance of the evolution in these areas of scientific thought. Then, evaluating such topics as relativity, space and time, and evolutionary theory, he uses a scientific style of inquiry as a foundation on which to build a model of Christian belief structure. Science and theology share in the great human quest for truth and understanding, says Polkinghorne, and he illustrates how their interaction can be fruitful for both.
Author : Nicolaas A. Rupke
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion and science
ISBN : 3631581203
Can science and religion coexist in harmony? Or is conflict inevitable? In this volume an international team of distinguished scholars addresses these enduring yet urgent questions by examining the lives of thirteen eminent twentieth-century scientists whose careers were marked by the interaction of science and religion: Rachel Carson, Charles A. Coulson, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Arthur S. Eddington, Albert Einstein, Ronald A. Fisher, Julian Huxley, Pascual Jordan, Robert A. Millikan, Ivan P. Pavlov, Michael I. Pupin, Abdus Salam, and Edward O. Wilson. The richly empirical studies show a diversity of creative engagements between science and religion that defy efforts to set the two at odds.
Author : John Macquarrie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015051310640
Beginning from the philosophical and theological legacies of the 19th century, this book traces the renewal first of Protestant then of Catholic theology during the 20th century. It ends with a discussion of recent movements such as liberation theology.
Author : David C. Lindberg,Ronald L. Numbers
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1986-04-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520056923
Since the publication in 1896 of Andrew Dickson White's classic History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom, no comprehensive history of the subject has appeared in the English language. Although many twentieth-century historians have written on the relationship between Christianity and science, and in the process have called into question many of White's conclusions, the image of warfare lingers in the public mind. To provide an up-to-date alternative, based on the best available scholarship and written in nontechnical language, the editors of this volume have assembled an international group of distinguished historians. In eighteen essays prepared especially for this book, these authors cover the period from the early Christian church to the twentieth century, offering fresh appraisals of such encounters as the trial of Galileo, the formulation of the Newtonian worldview, the coming of Darwinism, and the ongoing controversies over “scientific creationism.” They explore not only the impact of religion on science, but also the influence of science and religion. This landmark volume promises not only to silence the persistent rumors of war between Christianity and science, but also serve as the point of departure for new explorations of their relationship, Scholars and general readers alike will find it provocative and readable.
Author : Amos Funkenstein
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691184265
Theology and the Scientific Imagination is a pioneering work of intellectual history that transformed our understanding of the relationship between Christian theology and the development of science. Distinguished scholar Amos Funkenstein explores the metaphysical foundations of modern science and shows how, by the 1600s, theological and scientific thinking had become almost one. Major figures like Descartes, Leibniz, Newton, and others developed an unprecedented secular theology whose debt to medieval and scholastic thought shaped the trajectory of the scientific revolution. The book ends with Funkenstein’s influential analysis of the seventeenth century’s “unprecedented fusion” of scientific and religious language. Featuring a new foreword, Theology and the Scientific Imagination is a pathbreaking and classic work that remains a fundamental resource for historians and philosophers of science.
Author : Michael James Lacey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1991-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521407753
This volume studies the persistence, complexity, and fragility of religious thought in the intellectual environment of the modern period.
Author : John Macquarrie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033603601
Preface to the new edition: A chapter has been added giving an account of developments in religious thought in the lively if confused decade, 1960-70. Some paragraphs in this chapter echo passages from a survey of recent theology which I wrote for The Expository Times, vol, lxxviii.
Author : Andrew Dickson White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Religion and science
ISBN : UOM:39015049248944
Author : John Hedley Brooke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781107664463
Offers an introduction and critical guide to the relationship between scientific thought and religious belief.