The scientific & the divine : conflict and reconciliation from ancient Greece to the present - Arieti, James A.; Wilson, Patrick A., 1962- (Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, 2003)
The problem -- Is human reason able to explain the world? -- What is science? -- The origin of scientific attempts to explain the world -- The god of ancient philosophers -- General considerations concerning the reconciliation of science and religion -- Plato -- Philo of Alexandria -- Reconciling science and religion in medieval Islam -- Reconciling science and religion in medieval Judaism -- Reconciling science and religion in the Christian Middle Ages -- Reconciling science and religion from the Renaissance through the Enlightenment -- Science and religion in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- Science and religion at the end of the twentieth century -- Conclusions.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-321) and index.
Keywords: Religion and science