Understanding Religion and Science: Introducing the Debate - Couverture rigide

Barnes, Michael Horace

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1441182004 ISBN 13 : 9781441182005

Editeur : Continuum Publishing Corporation, 2010

Synopsis

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Most texts on religion and science rightly focus on the effect of modern cosmology and biology on views about God and on the place of humankind in the universe. Many analyze current disputes about Intelligent Design. Some add useful material about notions the soul and inner freedom. A few offer thoughts about miracles. Others devote time to differences in methods in religion and science. Understanding Religion and Science covers all those topics well and clearly. This textbook also reviews relevant historical and philosophical background, showing, for example, that some ancient Christians speculated on how God might give order to history without having to intervene, or that the very earliest Christians did not believe in a naturally immortal soul. Finally, the text asks why people differ in their basic commitments, some giving priority to a religiously meaningful life, others willing to face even the most uncomfortable conclusions. The author suggests this may be a divide not easily bridged.. This book will appeal to students of Religion and of Science and Religion Studies.

Revue de presse

'Michael Barnes's introduction to the debate carefully and systematically lays out the self-understanding of many in the scientific and religious communities in ways that make them comprehensible to the layman but in a sophisticated manner that will satisfy many who have been thinking about these issues throughout their lives.' --Tikkun, September/October 2010

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Continuum Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1441182004
• ISBN 13: 9781441182005
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 314