Orthodox Christianity and Modern Science: Past, Present and Future
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Science and Orthodox Christianity, vol. 4
Orthodox Christianity and the Study of Nature
Histories of Interaction
Kostas Tampakis, Ronald L. Numbers † (eds)
- Pages: 268 p.
- Size:156 x 234 mm
- Illustrations:1 tables b/w.
- Language(s):English
- Publication Year:2025
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- ISBN: 978-2-503-61246-1
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The collection of papers in this volume aims to discuss the history of the interaction of Orthodox Christianity with the Natural Sciences. It covers a range of spaces, from modern Greece to 18th century Russia, and a variety of subjects, from environmental preservation to calendar reformation. This is the first edited volume to focus on the history of the subject.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Kostas Tampakis and Ronald Numbers, Introduction. Eastern and Western, Orthodoxies and Heterodoxies, Sciences and Religions
Gerasimos Merianos, Aspects of the Relationship between Alchemy and Christianity in Byzantium
Nicholas Jacobson, Religion and Lawgiving in Astronomical Tables. Tables of Time and the Council of Florence-Ferrara (1431–1449)
Olga Čadajeva, Cosmology in Russian Thought on the Eve of Modernity
Sandy Sakorrafou, Introducing Western Natural Theology in the Greek Orthodox Christian World (Late Eighteenth to Mid-Nineteenth Century). The Cases of Pamblekis, Lesvios, and Vamvas
Daniel P. Todes and Eleonora Filippova, Prayer as Paradigm. Aleksei Ukhtomsky, the Dominanta, and the Psycho-Physiology of Salvation
Kostas Tampakis, Science as an Orthodox Weapon and the Politics of Anti-Communism in Mid-Twentieth Century Greece
Christopher W. Howell, The Holiness of Creation. Philip Sherrard and the Climate Apocalypse
Vangelis Koutalis and Efthymios Nicolaidis, The Recent Literature about the History of the Relations between Orthodoxy and the Sciences. An Overview
