God and nature : historical essays on the encounter between Christianity and science /

God and nature : historical essays on the encounter between Christianity and science / [print] edited by David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers. - Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)1986. - xi, 516 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - ISSR Library . - ISSR Library. .

Rev. papers from an international conference held at the University of Wisconsin--Madison, Apr. 23-25, 1981.



Science and the early church / Science and theology in the middle ages / The copernicans and the churches / Galileo and the church / Catholicism and early modern science / Reformation theology and the mechanistic conception of nature / Puritanism, separatism, and science / The rise of science and the decline of orthodox Christianity: a study of Kepler, Descartes, and Newton / Christianity and the Newtonian worldview / Laplace and the mechanistic universe / The mechanistic conception of life / The shape and meaning of earth history / Geologists and interpreters of Genesis in the nineteenth century / Christianity and the scientific community in the age of Darwin / The impact of Darwinian evolution on Protestant theology in the nineteenth century / The creationists / Modern physics and Christian faith / Protestant theology and natural science in the twentieth century / David C. Lindberg -- Edward Grant -- Robert S. Westman -- William R. Shea -- William B. Ashworth -- Gary B. Deason -- Charles Webster -- Richard S. Westfall -- Margaret C. Jacob -- Roger Hahn -- Jacques Roger -- Martin J.S. Rudwick -- James R. Moore -- A. Hunter Dupree -- Frederick Gregory -- Ronald L. Numbers -- Erwin N. Hiebert -- Keith E. Yandell.



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Iglesia Catolica--Doctrinas.


Religion and science--History--Congresses.
Religion y ciencia--Historia.

Christian doctrine related to science, to 1980


Congress.
Conference proceedings.

BL245.N971.G633 1986