Galileo and the Conflict Between Religion and Science

ISBN-13: 9780367172947 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 198 str.

Gregory W. Dawes

Opis

For more than 30 years, historians have rejected what they call the ‘warfare thesis’—the idea that there is an inevitable conflict between religion and science—insisting that scientists and believers can live in harmony. Taking as its starting point the most famous of all such conflicts, the Galileo affair, this book argues that religious and scientific communities exhibit very different attitudes towards knowledge.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Before Copernicus  2. The Copernican Revolution  3. The Galileo Affair  4. The Question of Authority  5. The Question of Certainty  6. Critical Thought in Religion and Science  7. Faith and Knowledge  8. Secular Acts of Faith  9. Science as a Religion  Conclusion

O autorze

Gregory W. Dawes gained his first graduate degree at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome (1988) and then completed PhD degrees in both Biblical Studies (1995) and Philosophy (2007). He currently holds a joint appointment as Associate Professor in the Philosophy and Theology & Religion Departments at the University of Otago, New Zealand.