Title Science and Eastern Orthodoxy : from the Greek fathers to the age of globalization / Efthymios Nicolaidis

Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 252 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) Series Medicine, science, and religion in historical context Medicine, science, and religion in historical context. 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 Summary This book gives an overview of the relationship between science and Christian Orthodoxy, the official church of the Eastern Roman Empire Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-239) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Orthodox Eastern Church -- Doctrines Orthodox Eastern Church Orthodox Eastern Church -- Doctrines. Religion and science -- History. Religion and science. Religion and Science Eastern Orthodoxy -- history Science -- history Science -- education RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues. RELIGION -- Christianity -- General. Religion and science Theology, Doctrinal Ostkirche Wissenschaft Religion and science -- History. Religion och vetenskap -- historia. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2011009987 ISBN 9781421404264 1421404265

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