210 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
210 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
210 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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. This book disagrees. Taking as its starting point the most famous of all such conflicts, the Galileo affair, it argues that religious and scientific communities exhibit very... Read more
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
Biography
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.
