God and nature : historical essays on the encounter between Christianity and science / edited by David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers.

Contributor Lindberg, David C.

Imprint:Berkeley : University of California Press, c1986.

Descriptionxi, 516 p. : illus. : 24 cm.

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

Note:Includes index.

Note: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, Jr. - Reformation theology and the mechanistic conception of nature / Gary B. Deason. - Puritanism, separatism, and 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. Rudwick. - Geologists and interpreters of Genesis in the 19th century / James R. Moore. - Christianity and the scientific community in the age of Darwin / A. Hunter Dupree. - The impact of Darwinian evolution on Protestant theology in the 19th century / Frederick Grgory. - The creationists / Ronald L. Numbers. - Modern physics and Christian faith / Erwin N. Hiebert. - Protestant theology and natural science in the 20th century / Keith E. Yandell.

Bibliography Note:Bibliography: p. 473-484.

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