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- O'Leary, Don
- Book Title
- Roman Catholicism and Modern Science: A History
- ISBN
- 9780826418685
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
ISBN-10
0826418686
ISBN-13
9780826418685
eBay Product ID (ePID)
54353580
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
376 Pages
Publication Name
Roman Catholicism and Modern Science : a History
Language
English
Subject
Christian Theology / Systematic, Christianity / Catholic, Religion & Science
Publication Year
2006
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Religion
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
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1 in
Item Weight
25.6 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
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Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2006-023343
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"A lucid, thoughtful and thorough account of the relationship between modern science and the Roman Catholic Church ... indispensable for all those interested in the contemporary dialogue between science and theology. I found it enlightening and fascinating, both in its details and in the larger story it tells."- Denis Edwards, author of The God of Evolution: A Trinitarian Theology, ""It is a book which deserves the attention of all theologians and students of theology.." "All readers of church history will enjoy this refreshing trajectory" "It adopts an exemplary written style and overall presentation in which theology, church history and the sciences are discussed with equal authority. The text is detailed and meticulous" "The notes and bibliography are an outstanding resource for further study" Science and Christian Belief, Vol 21, No.1" --Cyprian Love ""Without being overly hypercritical, this important book lays out a dispiriting tale of fearful churchmen recurrently either avoiding or heavily editing scientific information that calls for radical new ways of envisaging religious truth ...a fascinating and reliable account of this and earlier episodes in the larger struggle of scientific reason and Catholic faith. It makes an important contribution to modern church history as well as to the present dialogue of science with religion." - John F. Haught, America, December 11, 2006" --John F Haught ""A thorough and painstaking survey of the uneasy relationship between the Roman Catholic Church and the scientific world." - Chruch Times" -- Church Times ""This book is a remarkable and unparalleled contribution to the understanding of religion and science. Thoroughly researched, meticulously written, and clearly argued, this monumental historical survey from O'Leary (scientific research, Biosciences Inst., University Coll.-Cork, Ireland; Vocationalism and Social Catholicism in Twentieth-Century Ireland) will certainly influence generations of thinkers. In 12 compact chapters, he insightfully traces the historical, cultural, and religious implications of scientific evolution. The scholarship is balanced but critical of Catholicism's ongoing confrontation with historical and contemporary scientific progress. From Galileo and bioethics to the "Syllabus of Errors" and Pope John Paul's philosophy of science, O'Leary's synthesis of history and science is fascinating to read and intellectually enlightening, The result is a sourcebook to understanding the complex dynamic between faith and reason. Recommended for academic libraries."- STARRED REVIEW, John-Leonard Berg, Library Journal, August 2006" --John-Leonard Berg, Library Journal ""...how admirably comprehensive, detailed and balanced a survey this is."- Michael Hoskin, The Tablet" -- Tablet, The, "Without being overly hypercritical, this important book lays out a dispiriting tale of fearful churchmen recurrently either avoiding or heavily editing scientific information that calls for radical new ways of envisaging religious truth ...a fascinating and reliable account of this and earlier episodes in the larger struggle of scientific reason and Catholic faith. It makes an important contribution to modern church history as well as to the present dialogue of science with religion." - John F. Haught, America , December 11, 2006, "With this book we now possess a map of Catholic responses to science from the time of Darwin's Origin of Species to the present .... Slowly, the dark, repressive clouds of the late nineteenth century have given way to a thoughtful, restrained attitude to science that seeks to meditate -- sometimes more successfully than others -- between tradition and scientific innovation. O'Leary has traced the many twists and turns in this story with clarity and insight." - Geoffrey Cantor, School of Philosophy, University of Leeds, "A bold and sweeping history of the interactions of the Roman Catholic Church with modern scientific thought. This book is deeply researched and thoughtfully argued. It will become the standard work on the subject and will, because of its strengths, generate both controversy and new research. It is a remarkable achievement." Frank M Turner, John Hay Whitney Professor of History, Yale University, "In this balanced and lucid treatment of the 'evolution' of modern Catholic attitudes towards science, O'Leary ranges across papal encyclicals, theological pronouncements and scientific essays. He has drawn on current scholarship on science and religion and its rejection of simple master narratives to present a nuanced study of the controversies within the Catholic world as well as between Catholics and unbelievers." - Bernard Lightman, Professor of Humanities, York University, Toronto and editor of Isis, "[O'Leary's] excellent and very readable book describes vividly the bleak aftermath of Galileo in which Catholic scientific scholarship suffered from self-censorship." - Quentin de la Bedoyere, Catholic Herald, 2008, "This book is a remarkable and unparalleled contribution to the understanding of religion and science. Thoroughly researched, meticulously written, and clearly argued, this monumental historical survey from O'Leary (scientific research, Biosciences Inst., University Coll.-Cork, Ireland; Vocationalism and Social Catholicism in Twentieth-Century Ireland) will certainly influence generations of thinkers. In 12 compact chapters, he insightfully traces the historical, cultural, and religious implications of scientific evolution. The scholarship is balanced but critical of Catholicism's ongoing confrontation with historical and contemporary scientific progress. From Galileo and bioethics to the "Syllabus of Errors" and Pope John Paul's philosophy of science, O'Leary's synthesis of history and science is fascinating to read and intellectually enlightening, The result is a sourcebook to understanding the complex dynamic between faith and reason. Recommended for academic libraries."- STARRED REVIEW, John-Leonard Berg, Library Journal, August 2006, 'A good starting place for any historian interested in Catholicism and science in the twentieth century' Reviewed in The Journal of BJHS, June 2010 (UK), "A bold and sweeping history of the interactions of the Roman Catholic Church with modern scientific thought. This book is deeply researched and thoughtfully argued. It will become the standard work on the subject and will, because of its strengths, generate both controversy and new research. It is a remarkable achievement." -- Frank M Turner, John Hay Whitney Professor of History, Yale University, "A great deal of the book is given to an excellent discussion of the nineteenth century Darwinian controversy. That controversy has fairly recently re-emerged. O'Leary's discussion is illuminating and should be widely read, especially by those who have any authoritative teaching position within the Church ... always rewarding reading." - Dr Garrett Barden, Doctrine & Life, "With this book we now possess a map of Catholic responses to science from the time of Darwin's Origin of Species to the present .... Slowly, the dark, repressive clouds of the late nineteenth century have given way to a thoughtful, restrained attitude to science that seeks to meditate sometimes more successfully than others between tradition and scientific innovation. O'Leary has traced the many twists and turns in this story with clarity and insight." - Geoffrey Cantor, School of Philosophy, University of Leeds, "...how admirably comprehensive, detailed and balanced a survey this is."- Michael Hoskin, The Tablet
Dewey Decimal
261.5/5088282
Table Of Content
Introduction 1. From Galileo to Darwin 2. Religion and Science in Victorian Britain 3. A Church under Siege 4. Defensive Strategies 5. Suppression of the Mivartian Hypothesis 6. Anti-Modernism 7. Catholicism and Science in the Interwar Years 8. Pope Pius XII and the New Theology 9. Science, Faith, and the Second Vatican Council 10. Pope John Paul II's Philosophy of Science and Faith
Synopsis
In the popular imagination, historical relations between the Roman Catholic Church and modern science are best epitomized in the case of Galileo Galilei. Condemned in 1633 for advancing the theory of a moving earth and a stationary sun, he was only exonerated in 1992. Yet apart from relatively few and specialized studies, there have been no extensive historical treatments of Catholic attitudes toward science after Galileo. Roman Catholicism and Modern Science is the first general history of the reactions of the Roman Catholic Church to developments in the natural sciences from about 1800 to the dawn of the twenty-first century. While Galileo's heliocentric universe had challenged the "inerrancy" of the Bible, Darwin's theory challenged the direct and immediate creation of the first humans. Through O'Leary's cast of characters-popes from Pius IX to John Paul II, polemicists like Thomas Henry Huxley and Irish physicist John Tyndall, and Catholic apologists and scientists like St. George Jackson Mivart-we get a clear picture of the back and forth volleys between representatives of the scientific and ecclesiastical establishments as well as within each of those establishments. Besides evolution, a wide range of other issues receives attention, including agnosticism, biblical criticism, the philosophy and professionalization of science, the nature of Catholic dogma vis-à-vis science and of intellectual freedom vis-à-vis faith and ecclesiastical authority. Many of these issues achieved a certain resolution in the years before and after the Second Vatican Council. However, toward the end of the twentieth century, new issues facing the church and global society emerged with a new variety and urgency, with environmental concerns, on the one hand, and portentous developments in the biological sciences, on the other, including contraception, "in vitro" fertilization, gene therapy, experimentation on embryos, and organ transplantation. O'Leary explains the intricacies of all of these issues clearly and fairly, though their ultimate resolution may take decades to achieve. "Roman Catholicism and Modern Science is a fascinating and reliable account... It makes an important contribution to modern church history as well as to the present dialogue of science and religion."-America Magazine "From Galileo and bioethics to the "Syllabus of Errors" and Pope John Paul's philosophy of science, O'Leary's synthesis of history and science is fascinating to read and intellectually enlightening... a sourcebook to understanding the complex dynamic between faith and reason." -Library Journal "Don O'Leary has written a bold and sweeping history of the interactions of the Roman Catholic Church with modern scientific thought. This book is deeply researched and thoughtfully argued. It will become the standard work on the subject and will because of its strengths generate both controversy and new research. It is a remarkable achievement." -Frank M. Turner, John Hay Whitney Professor of History, Yale University, In the popular imagination, historical relations between the Roman Catholic Church and modern science are best epitomized in the case of Galileo Galilei. Condemned in 1633 for advancing the theory of a moving earth and a stationary sun, he was only exonerated in 1992. Yet apart from relatively few and specialized studies, there have been no extensive historical treatments of Catholic attitudes toward science after Galileo. Roman Catholicism and Modern Science is the first general history of the reactions of the Roman Catholic Church to developments in the natural sciences from about 1800 to the dawn of the twenty-first century. While Galileo's heliocentric universe had challenged the "inerrancy" of the Bible, Darwin's theory challenged the direct and immediate creation of the first humans. Through O'Leary's cast of characters-popes from Pius IX to John Paul II, polemicists like Thomas Henry Huxley and Irish physicist John Tyndall, and Catholic apologists and scientists like St. George Jackson Mivart-we get a clear picture of the back and forth volleys between representatives of the scientific and ecclesiastical establishments as well as within each of those establishments. Besides evolution, a wide range of other issues receives attention, including agnosticism, biblical criticism, the philosophy and professionalization of science, the nature of Catholic dogma vis- -vis science and of intellectual freedom vis- -vis faith and ecclesiastical authority. Many of these issues achieved a certain resolution in the years before and after the Second Vatican Council. However, toward the end of the twentieth century, new issues facing the church and global society emerged with a new variety and urgency, with environmental concerns, on the one hand, and portentous developments in the biological sciences, on the other, including contraception, "in vitro" fertilization, gene therapy, experimentation on embryos, and organ transplantation. O'Leary explains the intricacies of all of these issues clearly and fairly, though their ultimate resolution may take decades to achieve. "Roman Catholicism and Modern Science is a fascinating and reliable account... It makes an important contribution to modern church history as well as to the present dialogue of science and religion."-America Magazine "From Galileo and bioethics to the "Syllabus of Errors" and Pope John Paul's philosophy of science, O'Leary's synthesis of history and science is fascinating to read and intellectually enlightening... a sourcebook to understanding the complex dynamic between faith and reason." -Library Journal "Don O'Leary has written a bold and sweeping history of the interactions of the Roman Catholic Church with modern scientific thought. This book is deeply researched and thoughtfully argued. It will become the standard work on the subject and will because of its strengths generate both controversy and new research. It is a remarkable achievement." -Frank M. Turner, John Hay Whitney Professor of History, Yale University, In the popular imagination, historical relations between the Roman Catholic Church and modern science are best epitomized in the case of Galileo Galilei. This work is the general history of the reactions of the RCC to developments in the natural sciences from about 1800 to the dawn of the twenty-first century., This is the first general history of the reactions of the Roman Catholic Church to developments in the natural sciences from about 1800 to the dawn of the twenty-first century., In the popular imagination, historical relations between the Roman Catholic Church and modern science are best epitomised in the case of Galileo Galilei. Condemned in 1616 for advancing the theory of a moving earth and a stationary sun, he was only fully exonerated in 1992. Yet apart from relatively few and specialised studies, there have been no extensive historical treatments of Catholic attitudes toward science after Galileo. This is the first general history of the reactions of the RCC to developments in the natural sciences from about 1800 to the dawn of the twenty-first century.....While Galileo's heliocentric universe had challenged the 'inerrancy' of the Bible, Darwin's theories challenged the divine origin of the universe and the direct and immediate creation of the human soul. Through O'Leary's cast of characters-popes from Pius IX to John Paul II, polemicists like Thomas Henry Huxley and Irish physicist John Tyndall, and Catholic apologists and scientists like Sir George Jackson Mivart - we get a clear picture of the back and forth volleys between representatives of the scientific and religious establishments. Besides evolution, a wide range of other issues receives attention, including agnosticism, biblical criticism, the philosophy and professionalisation of science, the nature of Catholic dogma vis-a-vis science and intellectual freedom vis-a-vis faith and ecclsiastical authority.....While many of these issues achieved a certain resolution in the years before and after the Second Vatican Council, toward the end of the 20th century new issues facing the church and global society exploded with new urgency, with environmental concerns, on the one hand, and portentous developments in the biological sciences, on the other: contraception, abortion, in vitro fertilization, gene therapy, experimentation on embryos, organ transplantation, withdrawal of medical treatment, diagnosis of death and euthanasia. O'Leary explains the intricacies all of these issues clearly and fairly, though their ultimate resolution may take decades to achieve.
LC Classification Number
BX1795.S35O44 2006
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