Essays on Religion, Science, and Society
Title | Essays on Religion, Science, and Society PDF eBook |
Author | Herman Bavinck |
Publisher | Baker Books |
Pages | 472 |
Release | 2008-06-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1441206329 |
Herman Bavinck, the premier theologian of the Kuyper-inspired, neo-Calvinistic revival in the late-nineteenth-century Netherlands, is an important voice in the development of Protestant theology. Essays on Religion, Science, and Society is the capstone of his distinguished career. These seminal essays offer an outworking of Bavinck's systematic theology as presented in his Reformed Dogmatics and engage enduring issues from a biblical and theological perspective. The work presents his mature reflections on issues relating to ethics, education, politics, psychology, natural science and evolution, aesthetics, and philosophy of religion. This collection--Bavinck's most significant remaining untranslated work--is now available in English for the first time. Pastors, students, and scholars of Reformed theology will value this work.
Science, Faith and Society
Title | Science, Faith and Society PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Polanyi |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 98 |
Release | 2013-01-07 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 022616344X |
In its concern with science as an essentially human enterprise, Science, Faith and Society makes an original and challenging contribution to the philosophy of science. On its appearance in 1946 the book quickly became the focus of controversy. Polanyi aims to show that science must be understood as a community of inquirers held together by a common faith; science, he argues, is not the use of "scientific method" but rather consists in a discipline imposed by scientists on themselves in the interests of discovering an objective, impersonal truth. That such truth exists and can be found is part of the scientists' faith. Polanyi maintains that both authoritarianism and scepticism, attacking this faith, are attacking science itself.
God and Caesar
Title | God and Caesar PDF eBook |
Author | George Pell |
Publisher | CUA Press |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 2007-10 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 081321503X |
Drawing on a deep knowledge of history and human affairs, the essays pinpoint the key issues facing Christians and non-believers in determining the future of modern democratic life
The Believing Scientist
Title | The Believing Scientist PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Barr |
Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2016-11-20 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1467445967 |
Elegant writings by a cutting-edge research scientist defending traditional theological and philosophical positions Both an accomplished theoretical physicist and a faithful Catholic, Stephen Barr in this book addresses a wide range of questions about the relationship between science and religion, providing a beautiful picture of how they can coexist in harmony. In his first essay, "Retelling the Story of Science," Barr challenges the widely held idea that there is an inherent conflict between science and religion. He goes on to analyze such topics as the quantum creation of universes from nothing, the multiverse, the Intelligent Design movement, and the implications of neuroscience for the reality of the soul. Including reviews of highly influential books by such figures as Edward O. Wilson, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Jay Gould, Francis S. Collins, Michael Behe, and Thomas Nagel, The Believing Scientist helpfully engages pressing questions that often vex religious believers who wish to engage with the world of science.
Religion, science, and society in the modern world
Title | Religion, science, and society in the modern world PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Dunlop Lindsay |
Publisher | |
Pages | 73 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | |
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God and Nature
Title | God and Nature PDF eBook |
Author | David C. Lindberg |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 530 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780520055384 |
Between Naturalism and Religion
Title | Between Naturalism and Religion PDF eBook |
Author | Jürgen Habermas |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2014-11-06 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0745694608 |
Two countervailing trends mark the intellectual tenor of our age – the spread of naturalistic worldviews and religious orthodoxies. Advances in biogenetics, brain research, and robotics are clearing the way for the penetration of an objective scientific self-understanding of persons into everyday life. For philosophy, this trend is associated with the challenge of scientific naturalism. At the same time, we are witnessing an unexpected revitalization of religious traditions and the politicization of religious communities across the world. From a philosophical perspective, this revival of religious energies poses the challenge of a fundamentalist critique of the principles underlying the modern Wests postmetaphysical understanding of itself. The tension between naturalism and religion is the central theme of this major new book by Jürgen Habermas. On the one hand he argues for an appropriate naturalistic understanding of cultural evolution that does justice to the normative character of the human mind. On the other hand, he calls for an appropriate interpretation of the secularizing effects of a process of social and cultural rationalization increasingly denounced by the champions of religious orthodoxies as a historical development peculiar to the West. These reflections on the enduring importance of religion and the limits of secularism under conditions of postmetaphysical reason set the scene for an extended treatment the political significance of religious tolerance and for a fresh contribution to current debates on cosmopolitanism and a constitution for international society.