Stages of Thought The Co-Evolution of Religious Thought and Science

by Barnes, Michael Horace

• ISBN13: 9780195133899
• ISBN10: 0195133897
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-05-25
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This book provides a unique exploration of the relationship betweenreligious and scientific thought. Arguing that these two modes of thought arecomplementary, Barnes delineates the successive stages of the co-evolution ofreligious and scientific thought in the West, from the preliterate culture ofantiquity up to the present day.

Author Biography

Michael H. Barnes is Professor of Religious Studies and Alumni Chair in Humanities, The University of Dayton.

Table of Contents

Introduction	3	(12)
Culture and Cognition	15	(19)
Addressing the Critics	34	(19)
Cognitive Styles in Primitive Cultures	53	(25)
Archaic Thought, Preliterate and Literate	78	(15)
The Axial Age and the Classical Style of Thought	93	(19)
Philosophy, Religion, and Science in Western Antiquity	112	(20)
The Decline and Recovery of Classical Rationality in the West	132	(20)
Early Modern Models of Reality in Science and Religion	152	(23)
The Method of Modern Empirical Science	175	(25)
Religious Responses to Modern Science	200	(33)
Notes	233	(65)
Bibliography	298	(25)
Index	323