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On the resolution of science and faith
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New York,
Island Press
c1946.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. 1. Exploratory: The forgotten wisdom of Anaximander
- Blind guides: Democrtius; Plato; Aristotle
- Christian thought: If Anaximander had followed Jesus ; What the West can learn from Vedanta ; Thomas Aquinas did his brilliant best
- Early modern thought: Spinoza should have lived longer ; The Gospel according the George Fox ; How Newton combined science and faith
- Late modern thought: German views: Kant; Marx and Engels ; Anglo-American views: Dewey; Lloyd Morgan
- pt. 2. Analytical: The atheism of Newton's faith
- The nature of space: What supports light? ; Is there an ether? ; What causes motion?
- The nature of time: Time is a physical process ; Revolution by wave mechanics ; Time is spatial activity
- The nature of the cosmos: Gravitation: impulse toward harmony ; Is the cosmos expanding? ; Worlds grow and decay
- pt. 3. Constructive: Materials for a scientific faith
- A scientific foundation
- Man's outlook: What psychology and physics can share ; Theology as fundamental science ; The needlessness of doctrinal problems
- Man's inheritance: Can life come from matter? ; Evolutionary surprises ; Is man unique in the cosmos? ; Mankind is still emerging ; The threefold task of social science.