recent book: _When Science and Christianity Meet_

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Lindberg, David C. and Ronald L. Numbers, editors When
Science and Christianity Meet. 368 p. (est.), 12
halftones, 47 line drawings. 2003 

Cloth $29.00 0-226-48214-6 Fall 2003

Have science and Christianity been at each other's
throats for centuries? Or have they coexisted in
harmony? Although both characterizations are
misleading at best, they've nevertheless dominated
most popular and scholarly debates over science and
religion. 

Through careful attention to actual lived encounters,
When Science and Christianity Meet demonstrates that
the truth lies somewhere in between--sometimes
Christian beliefs and practices have encouraged
scientific investigation, and sometimes they have
hampered it, depending on the time, place, and people
involved. Providing much-needed historical contexts
for the science and religion debate, this book
explores key interactions between Christianity and
science from the Middle Ages through the twentieth
century. Twelve richly detailed case studies vividly
evoke particularly notorious, interesting, or
instructive historical episodes, discussing the
intellectual issues at stake, the relevant social and
cultural circumstances, and the often quite colorful
personalities involved. As the contributors bring to
light, even cases that have been frequently cited as
evidence of Christian suppression of scientific
inquiry, such as the Catholic Church's
seventeenth-century condemnation of Galileo or the
Scopes "monkey trial" of 1925, reveal great
complexity. 

For anyone curious about how science and Christianity
have related to each other over the centuries, When
Science and Christianity Meet provides an in-depth
understanding of crucial events from their shared
history. [...]

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