Frankenberry The Faith of Scientists

In Their Own Words
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2980-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 544 Seiten

The Faith of Scientists is an anthology of writings by twenty-one legendary scientists, from the dawn of the Scientific Revolution to the frontiers of science today, about their faith, their views about God, and the place religion holds--or doesn't--in their lives in light of their commitment to science. This is the first book to bring together so many world-renowned figures of Western science and present them in their own words, offering an intimate window into their private and public reflections on science and faith.

Leading religion scholar Nancy Frankenberry draws from diaries, personal letters, speeches, essays, and interviews, and reveals that the faith of scientists can take many different forms, whether religious or secular, supernatural or naturalistic, conventional or unorthodox. These eloquent writings reflect a spectrum of views from diverse areas of scientific inquiry. Represented here are some of the most influential and colossal personalities in the history of science, from the founders of science such as Galileo, Johannes Kepler, Francis Bacon, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, and Albert Einstein, to modern-day scientists like Carl Sagan, Stephen Jay Gould, Jane Goodall, Freeman Dyson, Stephen Hawking, Edward O. Wilson, and Ursula Goodenough. Frankenberry provides a general introduction as well as concise introductions to each chapter that place these writings in context and suggest further reading from the latest scholarship.

As surprising as it is illuminating and inspiring, The Faith of Scientists is indispensable for students, scholars, and anyone seeking to immerse themselves in important questions about God, the universe, and science.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frankenberry, Nancy K.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Wissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction vii

Acknowledgments xvii

PART ONE: Founders of Modern Science 1

Chapter 1: Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) 3

Chapter 2: Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) 34

Chapter 3: Francis Bacon (1561-1626) 59

Chapter 4: Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) 79

Chapter 5: Isaac Newton (1643-1727) 102

Chapter 6: Charles Darwin (1809-1882) 122

Chapter 7: Albert Einstein (1879-1955) 143

Chapter 8: Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) 177

PART TWO: Scientists of Our Time

Chapter 9: Rachel Carson (1907-1964) 197

Chapter 10: Carl Sagan (1934-1996) 222

Chapter 11: Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) 249

Chapter 12: Richard Dawkins (1941-) 268

Chapter 13: Jane Goodall (1934-) 296

Chapter 14: Steven Weinberg (1933-) 317

Chapter 15: John Polkinghorne (1930-) 340

Chapter 16: Freeman Dyson (1923-) 365

Chapter 17: Stephen Hawking (1942-) 392

Chapter 18: Paul Davies (1946-) 412

Chapter 19: Edward O. Wilson (1929-) 437

Chapter 20: Stuart A. Kauffman (1939-) 452

Chapter 21: Ursula Goodenough (1944-) 475

Permission Acknowledgments 505

Index 513

Über Autor(innen)

Nancy K. Frankenberry is the John Phillips Professor of Religion at Dartmouth College. Her books include Radical Interpretation in Religion and Religion and Radical Empiricism.