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Cross-currents : interactions between science and faith

Title
Cross-currents : interactions between science and faith / by Colin A. Russell.
Author
Russell, Colin Archibald.
Publication
Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1985.

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Description
272 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
Subject
  • Religion and science > History
  • Science > History
  • Religion and science
  • Religion and Science
  • Science
  • Glaube
  • Wissenschaft
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Science in history -- Spring on Mount Olympus: science and Greek thought : Greek origins of science ; The Greek approach to science ; The absorption of Greek science -- The Copernican watershed : Reception of Copernicanism ; Copernicanism and the church ; Copernicanism and scripture ; Copernicanism and the plight of man -- Converging streams: science and biblical ideology : Removing the myth from nature ; The laws of nature ; The experimental method ; Controlling the earth ; To the glory of God -- Deepening waters: the Scientific Revolution : The new philosophers in seventeenth-century England ; Carving a new channel: the Newtonian universe ; Dangerous currents: nature and God -- Harnessing the river: making use of science : Practical uses of science: Nonconformists and technology ; Ideological uses of science: natural theology -- Temporary flood warning: a geological interlude : The rise of ‘flood geology’ ; The ebbing of the waters -- Troubled waters: the evolution controversy : ‘The troubled waters of evolution’ ; Theological issues at stake ; Scientific doubts ; Bridge over troubled waters -- Sacred stream: Romanticism and scientific naturalism : The worship of nature ; The worship of science -- Powerful currents: crisis in Newtonian physics : The new scientific revolution in the physical sciences ; Ideological imperatives ; Some theological impacts -- Polluting effluent: science and the environment : The case for the prosecution ; The case for the defence ; A provisional judgment -- Floodtide : Nuclear shadows ; The dignity of man ; The enduring Word.
ISBN
  • 0802801633
  • 9780802801630
  • 9780802800947
  • 0802800947
  • 0802800947 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
85010199
OCLC
  • ocm12050202
  • 12050202
  • SCSB-630153
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library