| Description |
xi, 516 pages : illustrations : 24 cm |
| Note |
Rev. papers from an international conference held at the University of Wisconsin--Madison, Apr. 23-25, 1981. |
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Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 473-484. |
| Contents |
Science and the early church / David C. Lindberg -- Science and theology in the middle ages / Edward Grant -- The copernicans and the churches / Robert S. Westman -- Galileo and the church / William R. Shea -- Catholicism and early modern science / William B. Ashworth -- Reformation theology and the mechanistic conception of nature / Gary B. Deason -- Puritanism, separatism, and |
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science / Charles Webster -- The rise of science and the decline of orthodox Christianity: a study of Kepler, Descartes, and Newton / Richard S. Westfall -- Christianity and the Newtonian worldview / Margaret C. Jacob -- Laplace and the mechanistic universe / Roger Hahn -- The mechanistic conception of life / Jacques Roger -- The shape and meaning of earth history / Martin J.S. |
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Rudwick -- Geologists and interpreters of Genesis in the nineteenth century / James R. Moore -- Christianity and the scientific community in the age of Darwin / A. Hunter Dupree -- |
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The impact of Darwinian evolution on Protestant theology in the nineteenth century / Frederick Gregory -- The creationists / Ronald L. Numbers -- Modern physics and Christian faith / Erwin N. Hiebert -- Protestant theology and natural science in the twentieth century / Keith E. Yandell. |
| Subject |
Religion and science -- History -- Congresses.
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| Indexed Term |
Christian doctrine related to science, to 1980 |
| Added Author |
Lindberg, David C.
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Numbers, Ronald L.
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| ISBN |
0520055381 alkaline paper |
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0520056922 paperback alkaline paper |
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