Between Science and Religion: The Engagement of Catholic Intellectuals With Science and Technology in the Twentieth Century - Couverture rigide

Thompson, Phillip M.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0739130803 ISBN 13 : 9780739130803

Editeur : Lexington Books, 2009

Synopsis

In exploring the role of Catholic intellectuals in engaging science and technology in the twentieth century, this book initially provides a background context for this evolution by examining the Modernism crisis in the first chapter. In order to unpack the subsequent evolution, Thompson then concentrates in separate chapters on the distinctive contributions of four specific Catholic intellectuals, Jacques Maritain (1882–1973), Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881–1955), Bernard Lonergan (1904–1984), and Thomas Merton (1915–1968). All of these intellectuals experienced some degree of official restraint in their efforts but through their distinctive intellectual trajectories, they contributed to a different engagement of the Church with science and technology. In the final chapters, the book first reviews the changes within the institutional Church in the twentieth century toward science and technology. Finally, it then applies some key ideals of the four intellectuals to anneal and extend John Paul IIs approach of critical openness to suggest how the Church can now engage science and technology.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Phillip M. Thompson is executive director of the Aquinas Center of Theology at Emory University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lexington Books
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0739130803
• ISBN 13: 9780739130803
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 298
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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