Peter Harrison

The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science

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Produktbeschreibung

An examination of the role played by the Bible in the emergence of natural science.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 534g
• ISBN-13: 9780521000963
• ISBN-10: 0521000963
• Artikelnr.: 22211441

Autorenporträt

Peter Harrison is Professor of Philosophy at Bond University in Australia. He has published widely in the area of the history of ideas and in particular on philosophy and religion in the early modern period. He is the author of Religion and the Religions in the English Enlightenment (Cambridge, 1990).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Worlds visible and invisible
2. Sensible signs and spoken words
3. The two reformations
4. Re-reading the two books
5. The purpose of nature
6. Eden restored
Conclusion
References
Index.