| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 300 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Adam's Encyclopaedia -- Science in paradise -- Falling into ignorance -- Inheriting error -- Carnal knowledge and the divine light -- Baptising aristotle -- Chapter 2 Augustine revived -- Luther and the putrid philosopher -- Depravity and doubt -- Augustinus -- The sceptical hypothesis -- Chapter 3 Seeking certainty in a fallen world -- Vestiges of heavenly light -- Mathematical certainties -- Adam, moses, hermes, solomon -- Inspiration, experience, and experiment -- Chapter 4 Dethroning the idols -- Self-knowledge and the sciences -- The dominion of mind -- The fallen body -- Intellectual idolatry -- Chapter 5 The instauration of learning -- 'Knowledge shall be increased' -- Reversing babel -- Solomon's house -- The limits of reason -- Anthropology abandoned -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- Last Page |
| Summary |
Peter Harrison provides an account of the religious foundations of scientific knowledge |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-291) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Religion and science -- History.
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RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- General.
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Religion and science
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Entwicklung
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Erbsünde
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Erkenntnistheorie
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Naturwissenschaften
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Religion
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Schöpfungslehre
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Sündenfall
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Theologische Erkenntnistheorie
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780511371110 |
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051137111X |
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0511370644 |
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9780511370649 |
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9780511370113 |
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0511370113 |
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1281156043 |
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9781281156044 |
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9780511487750 |
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0511487754 |
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