Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Religion & Science

Diese uberarbeitete Dissertation des Verfassers widmet sich der Analyse der etwa 2500 Jahre umspannenden Geschichte des Magiebegriffs. Nach einem einfuhrenden Teil zur Problematik akademischer Magiedefinitionen wird die Geschichte des Magiebegriffs - von ihren antiken Ursprungen bis in das 20. Jahrhundert - erstmals zusammenhangend dargestellt. Hierbei werden zu gleichen Teilen polemische, auenperspektivische Texte berucksichtigt als auch Autoren, die sich in der westlichen Kulturgeschichte selbst als "Magier" bezeichnet und verstanden haben.

In this book a new and distinctive approach to the science-religion debate emerges from a synthesis of the Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition with phenomenological thought. Developing ideas of Greek Patristics the author treats faith, with its sense of the Divine presence, and knowledge of the universe, as two modes of communion which constitute the human condition. The modern opposition between science and theology (which is historically paralleled with the Church's split between East and West, and monasticism and Christianity in the world), is treated as the split between two...

Defining a moment in human self-awareness four centuries in the making, "Reason and Wonder: A Copernican Revolution in Science and Spirit" offers a way to move beyond the either/or choice of reason versus intuition--a dichotomy that ultimately leaves either the mind or the heart wanting. In doing so, it seeks to resolve an age-old conflict at the root of much human dysfunction, including today's global ecological crisis.

An outgrowth of C. David Pruett's breakthrough undergraduate honors course, "From Black Elk to Black Holes: Shaping Myth for a New Millennium," "Reason and Wonder"...

Takea strange and unsettling trip into the heart of the paranormal universe asjournalist Steve Volk tries to answer some of the most fundamental questions atthe heart of human existence. Fringe-ology will appeal to anyone curiousbut cautious about reports of paranormal experiences, psychic phenomena, andother unexplainable events--anyone who has ever...

In Legacy, Harry Ostrer, a medical geneticist and authority on the genetics of the Jewish people, explores not only the history of these efforts, but also the insights that genetics has provided about the histories of contemporary Jewish people. Much of the book is told through the lives of scientific pioneers. We meet Russian immigrant Maurice...

In War of the Worldviews these two great thinkers battle over the cosmos, evolution and life, the human brain, and God, probing the fundamental questions that define the human experience.

How did the universe emerge?
What is the nature of time?...