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Science and Eastern Orthodoxy : from the Greek fathers to the age of globalization / Efthymios Nicolaidis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nikolaidēs, E.
- Series:
- Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context Series
- Medicine, science, and religion in historical context
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Orthodox Eastern Church--Doctrines.
- Orthodox Eastern Church.
- Religion and science--History.
- Religion and science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Science and Eastern Orthodoxy provides a wealth of new information concerning Orthodoxy and secular knowledge--and the reactions of the Orthodox Church to modern sciences.
- Contents:
- The activist and the philosopher: the hexaemerons of Basil and of Gregory of Nyssa
- Two conceptions of the world: the schools of Antioch and Alexandria
- No icons, no science: the end of a tradition?
- The return of Greek science: the first Byzantine humanism (ninth century to the twelfth century)
- Struggle for heritage: science in Nicea and the Byzantine Renaissance
- The era of the palaiologos: political debates become scientific
- True knowledge and ephemeral knowledge: the hesychast debate of the fourteenth century
- Ancients versus moderns: Byzantium and Persian, Latin and Jewish sciences, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
- The fall of the empire and the exodus to Italy, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
- A rebel patriarch: Cyril Lucaris and Orthodox Humanism in science
- Toward Russia: the Slavo-Greco-Latin academy and the Jerusalem patriarchate
- Who were the heirs of the Hellenes?: science and the Greek Enlightenment
- The scientific modernization of an Orthodox state: Greece from independence to membership in the European Union
- Science and religion in the Greek state: materialism and Darwinism.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-239) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 5, 2013).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-0426-5
- OCLC:
- 868974462
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