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Science and Eastern Orthodoxy : from the Greek fathers to the age of globalization / Efthymios Nicolaidis.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Medicine, science, and religion in historical contextPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 252 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781421404264
  • 1421404265
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Science and Eastern Orthodoxy.DDC classification:
  • 261.5/5 22
LOC classification:
  • BX342.9.S35 N55 2011
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
  • BO 3380
  • 7,41
  • BO 6885
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: This book gives an overview of the relationship between science and Christian Orthodoxy, the official church of the Eastern Roman Empire.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)601005

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-239) and index.

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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.

English.

This book gives an overview of the relationship between science and Christian Orthodoxy, the official church of the Eastern Roman Empire.