Jordan Naturalism in the Christian Imagination

Providence and Causality in Early Modern England
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-009-21194-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Science today is often seen as providing the definitive frame of reference for understanding what goes on in nature. Furthermore, the history of science has frequently been portrayed as the story of steady progress in overturning religious explanation in favour of scientific truth. This narrative has been challenged by those who – like the author of this book – recognise that a naturalistic way of looking at the world, which lies at the heart of modern science, has a far richer relationship to religion than many have allowed. Peter Jordan now takes this recognition in fresh and exciting directions. Focusing on key thinkers in early modern England, who located causality within a divine and providential view of the cosmos, he shows how they were able to integrate ideas which today might be dichotomised as 'scientific' and 'religious'. His book makes a compelling contribution to current science and religion debates and their history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jordan, Peter N.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I. Setting the Scene: 1. Explanation before science and religion; 2. Providence in Early Modern England; Part II. Expanding the Explanatory Scope of Natural Causality: 3. Chance, lots, and games; 4. Prodigies; Part III. Curtailing the Explanatory Ambitions of Naturalistic Philosophies: 5. Atomism; 6. Theories of the Earth; Part IV. Conclusion: 7. Explanation after science and religion.

Über Autor(innen)

Jordan, Peter N.
Peter N. Jordan earned a PhD in Physiology, Biophysics, and Systems Biology from Cornell University and then a PhD in Studies in Religion from the University of Queensland. He is now a research fellow of the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion at the Faculty of Theology and Religion in the University of Oxford, where he is the primary researcher on the 'Intellectual World of John Templeton' project, sponsored by the Templeton World Charity Foundation. He is also Director of Grants and Research at Scholarship and Christianity in Oxford (SCIO). He is a Fellow of the International Society for Science and Religion.