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The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science

  • Hardback
  • 316 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2.3 cm

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Peter Harrison provides an account of the religious foundations of scientific knowledge. He shows how the approaches to the study of nature that emerged in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were directly informed by theological discussions about the Fall of Man and the extent to which the mind and the senses had been damaged by that primeval event. Scientific methods, he suggests, were originally devised as techniques for ameliorating the cognitive damage wrought by human sin. At its inception, modern science was conceptualized as a means of recapturing the knowledge of nature that Adam had once possessed. Contrary to a widespread view that sees science emerging in conflict with religion, Harrison argues that theological considerations were of vital importance in the framing of the scientific method.
The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science and Territories of Science and Religion
Territories of Science and ReligionThe Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science
  • Author

    Peter Harrison (university Of Oxford)

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    December 2007

  • Weight

    636g

  • Page Count

    316

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521875592

  • ISBN-10

    0521875595

  • Eden Code

    1151744

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