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

Author/creator Nikolaidēs, E.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBaltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,
Descriptionxviii, 252 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
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Subjects
Orthodox Eastern Church--Doctrines.
Religion and science--History.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 229-239) and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2011009987
ISBN9781421402987 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN142140298X (hardcover : alk. paper)

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