Religion and the Rise of Modern ScienceAt a time when religion and science are seen by many to be antagonists locked in a battle to the death, Professor Hooykaas offers a startling proposition: modern science, he suggests, is in good part a product of the Judeo-Christian influence on western thought. |
Contents
GOD AND NATURE | 1 |
B The Biblical View | 7 |
The Mechanistic World Picture | 13 |
F The Radical Critique of Naturalism | 19 |
REASON AND EXPERIENCE | 29 |
B Empiricism and Rationalism in the Beginning of | 35 |
Cartesianism | 41 |
29 | 52 |
The Dominion of Man over Nature | 67 |
THE RISE OF EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE | 75 |
B The JudaeoChristian Evaluation of Manual Work | 83 |
30 | 94 |
SCIENCE AND THE REFORMATION | 98 |
B Science and Biblical Exegesis | 114 |
Puritanism and Science | 135 |
Epilogue | 161 |
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