Theology and Science in the Thought of Francis Bacon.
Title:
Theology and Science in the Thought of Francis Bacon.
Author:
Matthews, Steven, Professor.
ISBN:
9780754693673
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (165 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Breaking with a Puritan Past -- 2 Bacon's Turn toward the Ancient Faith -- 3 In the Beginning: The Creation of Nature and the Nature of the Fall -- 4 On the Way of Salvation: Bacon's Twofold Via Salutis -- 5 In the Autumn of the World: Features of the Age of Instauration -- 6 Bacon's Circle and his Legacy -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.
Abstract:
Although many books have been published on Francis Bacon there is still no scholarly consensus on his religious beliefs and how they may have affected his work. This monograph contributes possible answers to the questions of what Bacon believed and how it may have affected the development of his program for scientific reform, the 'Great Instauration'. The work also offers a new approach to the question of the interaction of religion and science in early modern England by considering the effect of patristic theology on the development of new ways of considering the relationship of God and nature, and the place of human beings in the cosmos.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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