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Informationen zum Autor Michael Hanby is Associate Professor of Religion and Philosophy of Science at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family Studies at the Catholic University of America. His previous published works include Augustine and Modernity and numerous journal articles. He has taught previously at Baylor University and Villanova University. Klappentext Are creation and evolution mutually exclusive terms? Or is there instead a deep relationship between science, metaphysics, and theology that can help shed light into mankind's quest for the ultimate truth? No God, No Science: Theology, Cosmology, Biology presents a comprehensive work of philosophical theology whose overarching aim is to retrieve the Christian doctrine of creation ex nihilo from the distortions imposed upon it by positivist science and the Darwinian tradition of evolutionary biology.Noted scholar Michael Hanby cogently argues that the Christian doctrine of creation is actually essential to the intelligibility of the world and that the universe itself is a fundamentally metaphysical and theological concept. Metaphysics and theology, he reasons, are not options in the realm of science, and the intractable problems of Darwinian biology are actually the result of its faulty metaphysical and theological foundations. Putting forth a new understanding of the relationship between theology and science and an original and thought-provoking critical reassessment of Darwinian biology, No God, No Science changes the terms of the debate between Darwinism and theology and offers startling new insights into the potential for science and religion to coexist and flourish in the modern world. Zusammenfassung No God! No Science: Theology! Cosmology! Biology presents a work of philosophical theology that retrieves the Christian doctrine of creation from the distortions imposed upon it by positivist science and the Darwinian tradition of evolutionary biology.* Argues that the doctrine of creation is integral to the intelligibility of the world* Brings the metaphysics of the Christian doctrine of creation to bear on the nature of science* Offers a provocative analysis of the theoretical and historical relationship between theology! metaphysics! and science* Presents an original critique and interpretation of the philosophical meaning of Darwinian biology Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface viiiAcknowledgments xiAbbreviations xiiPrimary Sources and Translations xviIntroduction 1Part I In the Beginning 71 Discourse on Method 92 A Brief History of the Cosmos 49Part II The Eclipse of the Universe 1053 The Scientific and Theological Revolution 1074 Unnatural "Theology" 1505 Darwin the Theologian 1866 The Mystery of the Missing Organism 250Part III Creation Without Creationism 2977 Deus Creator Omnium 2998 What the World Is 3349 Saving the Appearances 375Epilogue: Evolution of the Last Men 416Index 422...
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface viii
Acknowledgments xi
Abbreviations xii
Primary Sources and Translations xvi
Introduction 1
Part I In the Beginning 7
1 Discourse on Method 9
2 A Brief History of the Cosmos 49
Part II The Eclipse of the Universe 105
3 The Scientific and Theological Revolution 107
4 Unnatural "Theology" 150
5 Darwin the Theologian 186
6 The Mystery of the Missing Organism 250
Part III Creation Without Creationism 297
7 Deus Creator Omnium 299
8 What the World Is 334
9 Saving the Appearances 375
Epilogue: Evolution of the Last Men 416
Index 422
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"You can know "what" without knowing "how", but you can't know "how" without knowing "what" - my short summary of this wonderful book." (Every Good Path, 27 July 2014)
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Review featured in The Tablet - 5 April 2014
"Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty." (Choice, 1 December 2013)
