2. Science and Theology in the Middle Ages

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Acknowledgments IX
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Science and the Early Church 19
6. 2. Science and Theology in the Middle Ages 49
7. 3. The Copernicans and the Churches 76
8. 4. Galileo and the Church 114
9. 5. Catholicism and Early Modern Science 136
10. 6. Reformation Theology and the Mechanistic Conception of Nature 167
11. 7. Puritanism, Separatism, and Science 192
12. 8. The Rise of Science and the Decline of Orthodox Christianity: A Study of Kepler, Descartes, and Newton 218
13. 9. Christianity and the Newtonian Worldview 238
14. 10. Laplace and the Mechanistic Universe 256
15. 11. The Mechanistic Conception of Life 277
16. 12. The Shape and Meaning of Earth History 296
17. 13. Geologists and Interpreters of Genesis in the Nineteenth Century 322
18. 14. Christianity and the Scientific Community in the Age of Darwin 351
19. 15. The Impact of Darwinian Evolution on Protestant Theology in the Nineteenth Century 369
20. 16. The Creationists 391
21. 17. Modern Physics and Christian Faith 424
22. 18. Protestant Theology and Natural Science in the Twentieth Century 448
23. A Guide to Further Reading 473
24. Contributors 485
25. Index 489