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Science and Religion : a Critical Survey.
This landmark book, first published in 1987, is now back in print, with a new introduction by its award-winning author. An interdisciplinary approach to the central themes of scientific and religious thought, this book was widely heralded upon its publication for the richness and depth of its contri...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Radnor :
Templeton Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction to the 2006 Edition. Human Uniqueness and Human Responsibility: Science and Religion in a New Millennium; 1. An Open Future; 2. Matter, Energy, Information; 3. Genetics: Past, Present, and Future; 4. Human Uniqueness: Brain, Mind, Culture; 5. Mind Knowing Nature: Realism and Social Construction; 6. Science and Conscience; 7. Historical and Cruciform Nature: Life Persisting in Perishing; Chapter 1: Methods in Scientific and Religious Inquiry; 1. Theories, Creeds, and Experience; 2. Models, Patterns, Paradigms.
- 3. Objectivity and Involvement4. Scientific and Religious Logic; Chapter 2: Matter: Religion and the Physical Sciences; 1. Newtonian Mechanism; 2. Quantum Mechanics and Indeterminacy; 3. Relativity and Matter-Energy; 4. Microphysical and Astrophysical Nature; Chapter 3: Life: Religion and the Biological Sciences; 1. Biochemistry and the Secret of Life; 2. Evolution and the Secret of Life; 3. The Cybernetics of Life; 4. The Life Struggle; Chapter 4: Mind: Religion and the Psychological Sciences; 1. The Possibility of a Human Science; 2. Religion and Freudian Psychoanalysis.
- 3. Religion and Behavioral Science4. Religion and Humanistic Psychologies; Chapter 5: Culture: Religion and the Social Sciences; 1. Society and the Individual: Models, Laws, Causes; 2. Interpretive Social Science; 3. Religion as a Social Projection; 4. Values in Social Science; Chapter 6: Nature and History; 1. Nature after Science; 2. Hard Naturalism; 3. Soft Naturalism; 4. Eastern Perspectives; 5. The Dimension of History; 6. Suffering; Chapter 7: Nature, History, and God; 1. Nature and Supernature; 2. Scientific-Existentialist Theism; 3. Process Theism; 4. Transscientific Theism.
- 5. Insight in Science and Religion: Doing the Truth; Index.