Science and Spirituality - The Volatile Connection (Hardcover)

Until the end of the eighteenth century, almost everyone believed that the empirical world of science could produce evidence for a wise and loving God. By the twenty-first century this comforting certainty has almost vanished. What caused such a cataclysmic change in attitudes to science and to the world?
Science and Spirituality offers a new history of the interaction between Western science and faith, which explores the volatile connection and challenges the myth of their being locked in inevitable conflict.
Journeying from the French Revolution to the present day, and taking in such figures as Francis Bacon, René Descartes, Charles Darwin, Immanuel Kant, Albert Einstein, Mary Shelley and Stephen Hawking, David Knight shows how science evolved from medieval and Renaissance forms of natural theology into the empirical discipline we know today. Focusing on the overthrow of Church and State in revolutionary France, and on the crucial nineteenth century period when a newly emerging scientific community rendered science culturally accessible, Science and Spirituality shows how scientific disenchantment has provided some of our most flexible and powerful metaphors for God, such as the hidden puppet-master and the blind watchmaker, and illustrates how questions of moral and spiritual value continue to intervene in the scientific endeavour.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2003
First published:	2003
Authors:	David Knight
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-25768-8
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Philosophy of science Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > General Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > Philosophy of religion > General Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Christian theology > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Christian theology > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > Philosophy of religion > General Books > Christianity > Christian theology
LSN:	0-415-25768-9
Barcode:	9780415257688

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