David Knight

Science and Spirituality (eBook, PDF)

The Volatile Connection

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Produktbeschreibung

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 their 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 scientific endeavour.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000942873
• Artikelnr.: 67764027

Autorenporträt

David Knight is a Professor at Durham University and former President of the British Society for the History of Science

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Foreword 1. Christian materialism 2. Watchmaking 3. Wisdom
and benevolence 4. Genesis and geology 5. High church science and higher
pantheism 6. God working His purpose out 7. Lay sermonising 8. Knowledge
and faith 9. Handling chance 10. Clergy and clerisy 11. Mastering nature
12. Meaning and purpose Notes Index