02815nam 2200577Ia 450 991045120700332120200520144314.01-280-83414-50-19-535083-9(CKB)1000000000415741(EBL)430652(OCoLC)428818219(SSID)ssj0000250421(PQKBManifestationID)12078241(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000250421(PQKBWorkID)10232677(PQKB)11413076(MiAaPQ)EBC430652(Au-PeEL)EBL430652(CaPaEBR)ebr10273115(CaONFJC)MIL83414(EXLCZ)99100000000041574119990504d2000 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrStages of thought[electronic resource] the co-evolution of religious thought and science /Michael Horace BarnesOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20001 online resource (345 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-513389-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. 298-322) and index.Contents; Introduction; 1 Culture and Cognition; 2 Addressing the Critics; 3 Cognitive Styles in Primitive Cultures; 4 Archaic Thought, Preliterate and Literate; 5 The Axial Age and the Classical Style of Thought; 6 Philosophy, Religion, and Science in Western Antiquity; 7 The Decline and Recovery of Classical Rationality in the West; 8 Early Modern Models of Reality in Science and Religion; 9 The Method of Modern Empirical Science; 10 Religious Responses to Modern Science; Notes; Bibliography; IndexIn Stages of Thought, Michael Barnes examines a pattern of cognitive development that has evolved over thousands of years--a pattern manifest in both science and religion. He describes how the major world cultures built upon our natural human language skills to add literacy, logic, and, now, a highly critical self-awareness. In tracing the histories of both scientific and religious thought, Barnes shows why we think the way that we do today. Although religious and scientific modes of thought are often portrayed as contradictory-one is highly rational while the other appeals to tradition and faReligion and scienceReligion and scienceHistoryElectronic books.Religion and science.Religion and scienceHistory.215291.1/75Barnes Michael Horace936304MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451207003321Stages of thought2109177UNINA