Creational Theology and the History of Physical Science: The Creationist Tradition from Basil to Bohr

Erscheinungsjahr 1997
ISBN: 978-90-04-10669-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 78, 454 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 971 g

Reihe: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions

This volume documents the role of creational theology in discussions of natural philosophy, medicine and technology from the Hellenistic period to the early twentieth century. Four principal themes are the comprehensibility of the world, the unity of heaven and earth, the relative autonomy of nature, and the ministry of healing.
Successive chapters focus on Greco-Roman science, medieval Aristotelianism, early modern science, the heritage of Isaac Newton, and post-Newtonian mechanics.
The volume will interest historians of science and historians of the idea of creation. It simultaneously details the persistence of tradition and the emergence of modernity and provides the historical background for later discussions of creation and evolution.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kaiser, Christopher B

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher B. Kaiser, Ph.D. (1968) in Astrogeophysics, University of Colorado, and (1974) in Theology, University of Edinburgh, is Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at Western Theological Seminary, Holland, Michigan. He has published extensively in theology and science.