TY - BOOK AU - Nikolaidēs,E. TI - Science and Eastern Orthodoxy: from the Greek fathers to the age of globalization T2 - Medicine, science, and religion in historical context SN - 9781421404264 AV - BX342.9.S35 N55 2011 U1 - 261.5/5 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Baltimore PB - Johns Hopkins University Press KW - Orthodox Eastern Church KW - Doctrines KW - fast KW - nli KW - Religion and science KW - History KW - Religion and Science KW - Eastern Orthodoxy KW - history KW - Science KW - education KW - Religion et sciences KW - Histoire KW - RELIGION KW - Christian Life KW - Social Issues KW - bisacsh KW - Christianity KW - General KW - Theology, Doctrinal KW - Ostkirche KW - gnd KW - Wissenschaft KW - Religion och vetenskap KW - historia KW - sao KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-239) and index; The activist and the philosopher: the hexaemerons of Basil and of Gregory of Nyssa -- Two conceptions of the world: the schools of Antioch and Alexandria -- No icons, no science: the end of a tradition? -- The return of Greek science: the first Byzantine humanism (ninth century to the twelfth century) -- Struggle for heritage: science in Nicea and the Byzantine Renaissance -- The era of the palaiologos: political debates become scientific -- True knowledge and ephemeral knowledge: the hesychast debate of the fourteenth century -- Ancients versus moderns: Byzantium and Persian, Latin and Jewish sciences, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries -- The fall of the empire and the exodus to Italy, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries -- A rebel patriarch: Cyril Lucaris and Orthodox Humanism in science -- Toward Russia: the Slavo-Greco-Latin academy and the Jerusalem patriarchate -- Who were the heirs of the Hellenes?: science and the Greek Enlightenment -- The scientific modernization of an Orthodox state: Greece from independence to membership in the European Union -- Science and religion in the Greek state: materialism and Darwinism N2 - This book gives an overview of the relationship between science and Christian Orthodoxy, the official church of the Eastern Roman Empire UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=601005 ER -