Reconstructing Nature: The Engagement of Science and Religion (Glasgow Gifford Lectures)

Brooke, John and Geoffrey Cantor

ISBN 10: 019513706X / ISBN 13: 9780195137064

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 1998

Beschreibung

367pp. Near new condition, covers bright, text clean & binding tight.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 174519

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Reconstructing Nature: The Engagement of Science and Religion (Glasgow Gifford Lectures)
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 019513706X
• ISBN-13: 9780195137064
• Einband: Paperback
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Science

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Inhaltsangabe

This book, first published in the U.K. by T&T Clark, expands on the authors' prestigious Glasgow Gifford Lectures of 1995-6. Brooke and Cantor herein examine the many different ways in which the relationship between science and religion has been presented throughout history. They contend that, in fact, neither science nor religion is reducible to some timeless "essence" -- and they deftly criticize the various master-narratives that have been put forward in support of such "essentialist" theses.

Reseña del editor

This book, first published in the U.K. by T&T Clark, expands on the authors' prestigious Glasgow Gifford Lectures of 1995-6. Brooke and Cantor herein examine the many different ways in which the relationship between science and religion has been presented throughout history. They contend that, in fact, neither science nor religion is reducible to some timeless "essence"--and they deftly criticize the various master-narratives that have been put forward in support of such "essentialist" theses. Along the way, they repeatedly demolish the clichés so typical of popular histories of the science and religion debate, demonstrating the impossibility of reducing these debates to a single narrative, or of narrowing this relationship to a paradigm of conflict.