• Media type: Book
  • Title: Between science and religion : the engagement of Catholic intellectuals with science and technology in the twentieth century
  • Contains: IntroductionThe transformation -- Charting a course -- The legacy of modernist crisis -- The threat of modernism -- The crisis within the church -- The legacy of modernism -- Jacques Maritain's search for wisdom (1882-1973) -- A relentless quest -- The destruction of the medieval synthesis -- A philosophy of nature -- Science and society -- A postscript on evolution -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) and the operation of the divine in the universe -- The quest for the absolute -- The mature vision -- Cultural challenges -- The problem of being between religion and science -- Bernard Lonergan's (1904-1984) cognitive project -- Intellectual formation -- The role of Aquinas -- An integrated vision -- A critique of science and technology -- Thomas Merton's (1915-1968) contemplative critique -- How to understand Merton -- Technology invades the cloister -- A prophetic assessment of the techno-scientific culture -- Balance and the future of humanity -- The transformative century -- Boundary testing -- The winding path -- Progeny -- The path of critical openness -- Guideposts for the journey -- Concluding reflections.
    Introduction -- The transformation -- Charting a course -- The church enters the twentieth century -- The threat of modernism -- The crisis within the church -- The legacy of modernism -- Jacques Maritain's search for wisdom -- A relentless quest -- The destruction of the medieval synthesis -- A philosophy of nature -- Science and society -- A postscript on evolution -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's discovery of the divine in the universe the quest for the absolute -- The mature vision -- Cultural challenges -- The problem of being between religion and science -- Bernard Lonergan's cognitive project -- Intellectual formation -- The role of Aquinas -- The cognitive project -- A critique of science and technology -- Thomas Merton's contemplative critique -- How to understand Merton -- Technology invades the cloister -- A prophetic assessment of the techno-scientific culture -- Balance and the future of humanity -- The transformative century -- Boundary testing -- The winding path -- Progeny -- The way forward : critical openness -- Guideposts for the journey.
  • Contributor: Thompson, Phillip M. [Author]
  • imprint: Lanham, Md. [u.a.]: Lexington Books, 2009
  • Extent: XXIII, 249 S.; graph. Darst
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 9780739140208; 9780739130803
  • RVK notation: BG 4080 : Naturwissenschaftliches Weltbild und Religion
  • Keywords: Wissenschaft > Methode > Katholische Theologie > Geschichte 1900-1985
    Katholischer Theologe > Theologische Erkenntnistheorie > Wissenschaftstheorie > Technikphilosophie > Geschichte 1900-1985
    Maritain, Jacques > Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre > Lonergan, Bernard J. F. > Merton, Thomas
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Description: Introduction -- The transformation -- Charting a course -- The legacy of modernist crisis -- The threat of modernism -- The crisis within the church -- The legacy of modernism -- Jacques Maritain's search for wisdom (1882-1973) -- A relentless quest -- The destruction of the medieval synthesis -- A philosophy of nature -- Science and society -- A postscript on evolution -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) and the operation of the divine in the universe -- The quest for the absolute -- The mature vision -- Cultural challenges -- The problem of being between religion and science -- Bernard Lonergan's (1904-1984) cognitive project -- Intellectual formation -- The role of Aquinas -- An integrated vision -- A critique of science and technology -- Thomas Merton's (1915-1968) contemplative critique -- How to understand Merton -- Technology invades the cloister -- A prophetic assessment of the techno-scientific culture -- Balance and the future of humanity -- The transformative century -- Boundary testing -- The winding path -- Progeny -- The path of critical openness -- Guideposts for the journey -- Concluding reflections

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