Faith in an Age of Reason and Science

ISBN-13: 9783631505113 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 282 str.

Ferdinand Nwaigbo

Opis

The aim of this book is to heal the old rift between faith and reason, and to open a new horizon for faith and science in the New Age. It is a moving dialogue designed to promote a proper understanding between faith and science, and to stimulate a living faith in God in a human community. It addresses such issues as the structure of faith, the elements of faith, the relation of faith to reason, ideology, miracle, science, education and human economy. It shows, through detailed analysis of key ideologies of science, and the critique of the modern science, how science viewed faith, life and society. The train-of-thought did not simply criticize ideologies intricate in sciences in the quest for providing a critique of scientific ideologies, but it affirmed scientific values. In a broader context, science and technology possess their values as means of overcoming poverty, economic stagnation and they form pathways to self-reliant economy, and ways of joint sharing of the goods of this world. The discussion succinctly links African society to sound university education as means of scientific and economic development at dawn of the twenty-first-century.

Spis treści

Contents : Faith and reason at the cross-roads of history - Faith and reason: some thoughts for today - Growth and rise of the ideas of modern science - Scientific ideologies at the dawn of a new age - Ideology, science and economic interests - Healing by miraculous faith or medical science? - Faith and science and the task of theology - Faith and science partners in a dialogue - Faith, science and future of african society.

O autorze

The Author: Ferdinand Nwaigbo is born in 1958 at Ogbunka in Orumba South Local Government Area in Anambra State of Nigeria. He was ordained a Catholic Priest in 1987. He studied theology at Bigard Memorial Seminary, Enugu from 1983 to 1987 for a Baccalaureate in theology. He got a Master's degree in theology at the Jesuit Post-Institute in Frankfurt in 1991, and subsequently had his doctorate degree in theology at the University of Bamberg in Germany in 1995. At present, he is a lecturer at the Catholic Institute of West Africa in Port Harcourt, Rivers State Nigeria. He is the author of the Church as Communion: An African Christian Perspective, 1996; and Mary Mother of the African Church: A Theological Inculturation of Mariology published in 2001.