Living between science and belief : the modern dilemma / / Charles Villa-Vicencio ; foreword by John W. de Gruchy

• Autore: Villa-Vicencio Charles
• Pubblicazione: Stellenbosch, South Africa : , : African Sun Media, , 2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (167 pages)
• Disciplina: 248.4
• Soggetto topico: Life - Religious aspects - Christianity; Religion and science; God - Knowableness
• Persona (resp. second.): De GruchyJohn W.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Known, Unknown, and Unknowability -- 1. Where Believers, Atheists, and Skeptics Meet -- Religious Discontent -- Cosmology and the Origins of Human Life -- Origins of the Universe -- Human Evolution -- Cognitive Revolution and the Birth of Religion -- Atoms and Stories -- An Eternal and Silent God -- Religious Memes -- Beyond Literalism -- Stories Matter -- 2. The Being of God -- Religion, Politics, and Science -- Twelfth-Century Renaissance -- Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Existentialism -- Everyday Reality -- 3. Judaism: The Spirit of Prophecy -- Anti-Semitism -- Zionism -- Biblical Memory -- Competing Traditions -- Whose History? -- Post-Holocaust Theology -- Peace? -- 4. Christianity: The Humanity of God -- From Jesus to the Christ of the Creeds -- The Council of Nicaea -- The Post-Nicene Church -- Augustine, Bishop of Hippo -- The Council of Chalcedon -- The Great Schism -- The Western Church -- The Eastern Church -- Sixteenth-Century Reformations -- Magisterial Protestant Reformation -- Radical Protestant Reformation -- The Catholic Reformation -- Puritanism -- American Puritanism -- The Escalation of Nationalism -- Religious Extremism -- 5. Islam: Allah - Far and Near -- The Transcendence of Allah -- The Qur'an -- Identity -- Back to the Beginning -- The Prophet Muhammad and Companions -- Sunni, Shi'ite, and Sufi -- Islamic Extremism -- Moderate Islam -- Religions of the Book -- 6. Consciousness: Old and New -- The God Hypothesis -- When Facts Change -- The Neuroscientific Revolution -- The New Dialectic -- Rethinking Religion -- Doubt and Imagination -- Spiritual Bandwidth -- Bibliography.
• Sommario/riassunto: Most thoughtful people live in an interregnum between science and religion.
• Titolo autorizzato: Living between science and belief
• ISBN: 1-928314-85-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810071503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II