Wisdom or Knowledge?

by Drees, Willem; Liana, Zbigniew; Meisinger, Hubert

• ISBN13: 9780567031006
• ISBN10: 0567031004
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-05-23
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark

Summary

Is scientific knowledge wisdom, or is it more limited - effective, useful, applicable, but not what we mean by wisdom? And is the wisdom of ages past embodied in the great religious traditions still wisdom for our time, as we have to face new challenges,

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
Preface and Acknowledgements	xi
Abbreviations	xiii
Introduction: Mapping the Issues	1	(9)
Hubert Meisinger
Progress in Science and Theology	10	(15)
Dirk Evers
The Reliability of Science and its Cultural Impact	25	(13)
Mariano Artigas
`Don't Drink from that Dirty Stream!' The Decline of Science and Theology as Sources of Wisdom in Europe	38	(13)
Chris Wiltsher
Disjoining Wisdom and Knowledge: Science, Theology and the Making of Western Modernity	51	(22)
Peter Harrison
Wisdom through Communion and Personhood: From Patristic Theology to Contemporary Science	73	(18)
Alexei V. Nesteruk
Walking on Hermeneutic Territory: The Horizons of Sense for a Pilgrim	91	(17)
Lucio Florio
Where Streams Meet? Ecology, Wisdom and Beauty in Bulgakov, von Balthasar and Aquinas	108	(19)
Celia Deane-Drummond
Biotechnology and Ethics: A Locus for the Reintegration of Science and Wisdom?	127	(8)
Michael Fuller
Food Safety and Food Justice: Impacts of Scientific and Religious Cultures	135	(10)
Antje Jackelen
To Know is to Make: Knowledge, Ignorance and Belief in a Technological Society	145	(8)
Walther Ch. Zimmerli
Index	153