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Natural Theology, Deism, and Early Modern Science, Science, Religion, and Society: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture and Controversy (2006)
One of the most far-reaching consequences of the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century was...
The Bible and the emergence of modern science, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2006)
The Bible played a significant role in the development of modern science. Most obviously, its...
Miracles, Early Modern Science, and Rational Religion, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2006)
[Introduction]: Readers of the New Testament could be excused for thinking that there is little...
Having Dominion: Genesis and the Mastery of Nature, Environmental Stewardship: Critical Perspectives - Past and Present (2006)
The aim is to explore the ways in which the Genesis narratives were understood in...
Disjoining Wisdom and Knowledge: Science, Theology and the Making of Western Modernity, Wisdom or Knowledge? Science, Theology and Cultural Dynamics (2006)
This chapter focuses on four distinct phases of the relationship between science and wisdom in...
"Science" and "Religion": Constructing the Boundaries, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2006)
This article explores in some detail the historical circumstances of the emergence of the dual...
The 'Book of Nature' and Early Modern Science, The Book of Nature in Early Modern and Modern History (2006)
No one who is familiar with the literature of the early-modern period can be in...
The 'Book of Nature' and Early Modern Science , Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2006)
No one who is familiar with the literature of the early-modern period can be in...
The Natural Philosopher and the Virtues, The Philosopher in Early Modern Europe: The Nature of a Contested Identity (2006)
Natural philosophers, engaged as they were in a branch of philosophy, were expected to conform...
"Fill the Earth and Subdue it”: Biblical Warrants for Colonization in Seventeenth Century England, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2005)
The importance of conceptions of natural law in early-modern debates about the legitimacy of colonization...
Original Sin and the Problem of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2002)
While historians such as Charles Webster have alluded to the ways in which the myth...
Voluntarism and Early Modern Science, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2002)
[Introduction] The notion that divine voluntarism played a central role in the development of the...
Fixing the Meaning of Scripture: The Renaissance Bible and the Origins of Modernity, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2002)
‘I believe that the intellectual life of the whole of western society is increasingly being...
Curiosity, Forbidden Knowledge, and the Reformation of Natural Philosophy in Early-Modern England, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2001)
[Introduction]: Curiosity is now widely regarded, with some justification, as a vital ingredient of the...
Prophecy, Early-Modern Apologetics, and Hume’s Argument against Miracles, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (1999)
[Extract]: "What we have said of miracles may be applied, without any variation, to prophecies;...
Subduing the Earth: Genesis 1, Early Modern Science, and the Exploitation of Nature, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (1999)
[Extract] : In a short paper which appeared thirty years ago in the journal Science,...
The Virtues of Animals in Seventeenth-Century Thought, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (1998)
[Extract]: Discussions about animals - their purpose, their minds or souls, their interior operations, our...
God and Animal Minds: A Response to Lynch, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (1996)
[Extract] In a recent Sophia article 'Harrison and Hick on God and Animal Pain', Joseph...
Newtonian Science, Miracles, and the Laws of Nature, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (1995)
Sir Isaac Newton, along with his most prominent disciples, William Whiston and Samuel Clarke, came...