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Religion, science, and naturalism /

This book considers the consequences of the natural sciences (physics, biology, neurosciences) for our view of the world. Willem Drees argues that higher, more complex levels of reality, such as religion and morality, are to be viewed as natural phenomena and have their own concepts and explanations...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Drees, Willem B., 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • 1 Religion and science: strategies, definitions, and issues (starting p. 1)
  • 1 Introduction: a variety of strategies (starting p. 1)
  • 2 Science and naturalism (starting p. 6)
  • 3 Religion (starting p. 24)
  • 4 Contemporary contexts for religion's relation to science (starting p. 36)
  • 5 Classification of areas of discussion in science-and-religion (starting p. 39)
  • 6 Issues for further consideration and preview (starting p. 49)
  • 2 Histories of relationships between science and religion (starting p. 54)
  • 7 The Galileo affair as the founding myth of conflict (starting p. 55)
  • 8 Post-Darwinian conflicts in Britain and America (starting p. 63)
  • 9 Conflict-views (starting p. 74)
  • 10 Christianity as the matrix in which science arose (starting p. 77)
  • 11 Non-apologetical apologetics (starting p. 86)
  • 12 Lessons to be learned from history (starting p. 89)
  • 3 Theology and knowledge of the world (starting p. 92)
  • 13 Divine action (starting p. 93)
  • 14 Cosmic meaning and mystery (starting p. 106)
  • 15 Using scientific discoveries in theology (1): modalities of models (starting p. 115)
  • 16 Using scientific discoveries in theology (2): levels and lack of consensus (starting p. 123)
  • 17 Scientific realism and defences of theological realism (starting p. 130)
  • 18 From the discovery of science to theology? (starting p. 150)
  • 4 Theology and knowledge of human nature (starting p. 162)
  • 19 Experience as evidence of God? (starting p. 165)
  • 20 A naturalist view of religion: religion and the brain (starting p. 172)
  • 21 A naturalist view of consciousness (starting p. 183)
  • 22 Explanation and elimination (starting p. 189)
  • 23 Six debates on evolution and religion (starting p. 196)
  • 24 The evolution of moral and religious traditions (starting p. 199)
  • 25 Consequences for morality and for religion (starting p. 213)
  • 26 Theologies of evolved human religion (starting p. 223)
  • 5 Science, religion, and naturalism (starting p. 236)
  • 27 Science in a naturalist perspective (starting p. 237)
  • 28 Reality in a naturalist perspective (starting p. 244)
  • 29 Religion in a naturalist perspective (starting p. 249)
  • 30 A richer naturalism? (starting p. 252)
  • 31 A more transcendent God? (starting p. 259)
  • 32 Religions for wandering and wondering humans (starting p. 274)
  • References (starting p. 284)
  • Index (starting p. 308)