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- catalog abstract ""Until the end of the eighteenth century, almost everyone believed that the empirical world of science could produce evidence for a wise and loving God. By the twenty-first century, this comforting certainty had virtually vanished. Why? What caused such a cataclysmic change in attitudes to science and to the world?" "Science and Spirituality is the history of the interaction between Western science and faith, and of the sometimes productive and occasionally disastrous ways in which scientists have engaged with religious beliefs and institutions. It details the cultural and intellectual politics that ignited the descriptive 'cause' of science, eventually bringing about its ideological separation from its former ally, the Church." "Journeying from the French Revolution to the present day, and taking in such figures as Francis Bacon, Rene Descartes, Charles Darwin, Immanuel Kant, Albert Einstein, Mary Shelley and Stephen Hawking, David Knight shoes how science evolved from medieval and Renaissance forms of natural theology into the empirical discipline we know today. Focusing on the overthrow of Church and state in revolutionary France, and on the crucial nineteenth-century period when a newly emerging scientific community rendered science culturally accessible, Science and Spirituality explores the volatile connection between science and faith and challenges the myth of their being locked in inevitable conflict. The book shows how scientific disenchantment has provided some of our most flexible and powerful metaphors for God, such as the hidden puppet-master and the blind watchmaker, and illustrates the way in which questions of moral and spiritual value continue to intervene in the scientific endeavour."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b12873928.
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""Until the end of the eighteenth century, almost everyone believed that the empirical world of science could produce evidence for a wise and loving God. By the twenty-first century, this comforting certainty had virtually vanished. Why? What caused such a cataclysmic change in attitudes to science and to the world?" "Science and Spirituality is the history of the interaction between Western science and faith, and of the sometimes productive and occasionally disastrous ways in which scientists have engaged with religious beliefs and institutions. It details the cultural and intellectual politics that ignited the descriptive 'cause' of science, eventually bringing about its ideological separation from its former ally, the Church." "Journeying from the French Revolution to the present day, and taking in such figures as Francis Bacon, Rene Descartes, Charles Darwin, Immanuel Kant, Albert Einstein, Mary Shelley and Stephen Hawking, David Knight shoes how science evolved from medieval and Renaissance forms of natural theology into the empirical discipline we know today. Focusing on the overthrow of Church and state in revolutionary France, and on the crucial nineteenth-century period when a newly emerging scientific community rendered science culturally accessible, Science and Spirituality explores the volatile connection between science and faith and challenges the myth of their being locked in inevitable conflict. The book shows how scientific disenchantment has provided some of our most flexible and powerful metaphors for God, such as the hidden puppet-master and the blind watchmaker, and illustrates the way in which questions of moral and spiritual value continue to intervene in the scientific endeavour."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-224) and index.".
- catalog description "Something greater than ourselves -- Christian materialism -- Watchmaking -- Wisdom and benevolence -- Genesis and geology -- High-church science -- God working His purpose out? -- Lay sermons -- Knowledge and faith -- Handling chance -- Clergy and clerisy -- Mastering nature -- Meaning and purpose?".
- catalog extent "vii, 231 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0415257689".
- catalog identifier "0415257697 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New York : Routledge,".
- catalog subject "261.5/5/09034 21".
- catalog subject "BL245 .K59 2004".
- catalog subject "Religion and science History 19th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Something greater than ourselves -- Christian materialism -- Watchmaking -- Wisdom and benevolence -- Genesis and geology -- High-church science -- God working His purpose out? -- Lay sermons -- Knowledge and faith -- Handling chance -- Clergy and clerisy -- Mastering nature -- Meaning and purpose?".
- catalog title "Science and spirituality : the volatile connection / David Knight.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".