Science & religion : a critical survey / / Holmes Rolston III

• Autore: Rolston Holmes <1932-2025.>
• Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : Templeton Foundation Press, 2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (406 p.)
• Disciplina: 501
• Soggetto topico: Science - Philosophy; Religion and science
• Note generali: Originally published: 1987. With new intro. by the author.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction to the 2006 Edition. Human Uniqueness and Human Responsibility: Science and Religion in a New Millennium -- 1. An Open Future -- 2. Matter, Energy, Information -- 3. Genetics: Past, Present, and Future -- 4. Human Uniqueness: Brain, Mind, Culture -- 5. Mind Knowing Nature: Realism and Social Construction -- 6. Science and Conscience -- 7. Historical and Cruciform Nature: Life Persisting in Perishing -- Chapter 1: Methods in Scientific and Religious Inquiry -- 1. Theories, Creeds, and Experience -- 2. Models, Patterns, Paradigms -- 3. Objectivity and Involvement -- 4. Scientific and Religious Logic -- Chapter 2: Matter: Religion and the Physical Sciences -- 1. Newtonian Mechanism -- 2. Quantum Mechanics and Indeterminacy -- 3. Relativity and Matter-Energy -- 4. Microphysical and Astrophysical Nature -- Chapter 3: Life: Religion and the Biological Sciences -- 1. Biochemistry and the Secret of Life -- 2. Evolution and the Secret of Life -- 3. The Cybernetics of Life -- 4. The Life Struggle -- Chapter 4: Mind: Religion and the Psychological Sciences -- 1. The Possibility of a Human Science -- 2. Religion and Freudian Psychoanalysis -- 3. Religion and Behavioral Science -- 4. Religion and Humanistic Psychologies -- Chapter 5: Culture: Religion and the Social Sciences -- 1. Society and the Individual: Models, Laws, Causes -- 2. Interpretive Social Science -- 3. Religion as a Social Projection -- 4. Values in Social Science -- Chapter 6: Nature and History -- 1. Nature after Science -- 2. Hard Naturalism -- 3. Soft Naturalism -- 4. Eastern Perspectives -- 5. The Dimension of History -- 6. Suffering -- Chapter 7: Nature, History, and God -- 1. Nature and Supernature -- 2. Scientific-Existentialist Theism -- 3. Process Theism -- 4. Transscientific Theism. ; 5. Insight in Science and Religion: Doing the Truth -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This landmark book, first published in 1987, is now back in print, with anew introduction by its award-winning author. An interdisciplinary approachto the central themes of scientific and religious thought, this book was widelyheralded upon its publication for the richness and depth of its contributionto the science and religion dialogue. notable for its breadth and depth . . . filled with admirably argued andpowerfully presented treatments of critical issues. Joseph Pickle, ColoradoCollege, "Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science" a superb and subtle book. David Foxgrover, "Christian Century" a monumental work . . . T]he book is truly outstanding. John H.Wright, Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley, "Theological Studies" Rolston s presentation of the methods of science, along with up-to-datesummaries of the main achievements of the various sciences, is commendablefor its clarity and critical acumen. " Choice" According to Holmes Rolston III, there are fundamental questions that sciencealone cannot answer; these questions are the central religious questions.He uses the scientific method of inquiry to distill key issues from science, and then he integrates them in a study that begins with matter and movesthrough life, mind, culture, history, and spirit.Incorporating religious and scientific worldviews, he begins with anexamination of two natural sciences: physics and biology. He then extrapolatesexamples from two human sciences: psychology and sociology. Next, he moves to the storied universe and world history, raising and addressingreligious questions. Never in the histories of science and religion have the opportunities been greater for fertile interaction between these fields, withmutual benefits to both, states Rolston. The re-publication of this bookprovides current researchers and students in the field an invaluable, timelessmethodological resource.The new introduction offers updated insights basedon new scientific research."
• Altri titoli varianti: Science and religion
• Titolo autorizzato: Science & religion
• ISBN: 1-283-43690-6; 9786613436900; 1-59947-406-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910970360303321
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