Catholicism and science /
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| Language: | English |
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Westport, Conn. :
Greenwood Press,
2008
Westport, Conn. : 2008 |
| Series: | Greenwood guides to science and religion
Greenwood guides to science and religion |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction to science in the Catholic tradition
- From cosmos to unbounded universe : physical sciences from Trent to Vatican I
- From the Garden of Eden to an ancient earth : Catholicism and the life and earth sciences
- Catholicism and science at mid-twentieth century
- The legacy of Vatican II in cosmology and biology
- Catholicism, neuroscience, and genetics
- Ch. 1 Introduction to Science in the Catholic Tradition
- Introduction: "Catholicism" and "Science"
- The Heritage of the Early Church
- Natural Knowledge in the Patristic Era
- Science in the Early Middle Ages: Preserving Fragments
- The High Middle Ages: The Rediscovery of Aristotle and Scholastic Natural Philosophy
- Later Scholasticism: Exploring New Avenues
- Conclusion: From Late Scholasticism into Early Modernity
- Ch. 2. From Cosmos to Unbounded Universe: Physical Sciences from Trent to Vatican I
- The Reformations of the Sixteenth Century
- The Unmaking of the Medieval Cosmos: Copernicus Revises the Heavens
- The Conservative Origins of a Revolution
- Humanism and the Foundation of the Lyncean Academy
- Foundations of the Modern Worldview: Galileo
- Catholicism and Science in the Aftermath of Galileo
- Catholicism and the Physical Sciences in the Seventeenth Century
- The Popes and Science in the Nineteenth Century
- Catholicism and Physical Science: Three Models of Interaction
- Conclusion: A Diversity of Approaches in Cosmology and Religion
- Ch. 3. From the Garden of Eden to an Ancient Earth: Catholicism and the Life and Earth Sciences
- Natural History before Evolution
- Enlightenment Awakenings to the History of Earth and Life
- Cardinal Newman: Science in Catholic Thought at Mid-Century
- Early Vatican Reactions to Darwinism
- St. George Jackson Mivart: Evolution in Theistic Perspective
- Evolution and Religion: Germany and France
- Enthusiastic Appropriation: The Case of John Augustine Zahm
- Studied Rejection of Darwinism: Martin S. Brennan
- A Progressive View from the American Hierarchy: Bishop John L. Spalding
- Genetics and Mendel the Monk
- Conclusion: From the Garden of Eden to Mendel's Garden of Peas
- Ch. 4. Catholicism and Science at Mid-Twentieth Century
- Catholicism and the Natural Sciences in the 1922-1965 Period
- Thomism before Vatican II
- Papacy and Doctrine
- The Pontifical Academy of Sciences
- Georges Lemaitre
- Teilhard de Chardin
- Vatican II and Science
- John Paul II and Conclusion
- Ch. 5. The Legacy of Vatican II in Cosmology and Biology
- Hans Kung
- William Stoeger and George Coyne
- Kenneth Miller
- Michael Belie
- Jean Ladriere
- Ernan McMullin
- John Haught
- Bernard Lonergan
- Stanley Jaki
- Thomas Berry, Edward Oakes, Elizabeth Johnson, and Joseph Bracken
- Ch. 6. Catholicism, Neuroscience, and Genetics
- Introduction: Science and Ethics
- Bioethics, Personhood, and Life
- Catholicism, Emergentism, and Brain Science
- Catholicism, Genetic Science, and Original Sin.