Page de couverture de Magisteria

Magisteria

The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion

Aperçu

Essayer pour 0,00 $
Choisissez 1 livre audio par mois dans notre incomparable catalogue.
Écoutez à volonté des milliers de livres audio, de livres originaux et de balados.
L'abonnement Premium Plus se renouvelle automatiquement au tarif de 14,95 $/mois + taxes applicables après 30 jours. Annulation possible à tout moment.

Magisteria

Auteur(s): Nicholas Spencer
Narrateur(s): John Sackville
Essayer pour 0,00 $

14,95$ par mois après 30 jours. Annulable en tout temps.

Acheter pour 32,00 $

Acheter pour 32,00 $

Confirmer l'achat
Payer avec la carte finissant par
En confirmant votre achat, vous acceptez les conditions d'utilisation d'Audible et la déclaration de confidentialité d'Amazon. Des taxes peuvent s'appliquer.
Annuler

À propos de cet audio

Science and religion have always been at each other’s throats, right?

Most things you ‘know’ about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain widespread today.

The true history of science and religion is a human one. It’s about the role of religion in inspiring, and strangling, science before the scientific revolution. It’s about the sincere but eccentric faith and the quiet, creeping doubts of the most brilliant scientists in history–Galileo, Newton, Faraday, Darwin, Maxwell, Einstein. Above all it’s about the question of what it means to be human and who gets to say–a question that is more urgent in the twenty-first century than ever before.

From eighth-century Baghdad to the frontiers of AI today, via medieval Europe, nineteenth-century India and Soviet Russia, Magisteria sheds light on this complex historical landscape. Rejecting the thesis that science and religion are inevitably at war, Nicholas Spencer illuminates a compelling and troubled relationship that has definitively shaped human history.

©2023 Nicholas Spencer. (P)2023 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
Histoire Science Études religieuses Humanisme
activate_Holiday_promo_in_buybox_DT_T2

Ce que les critiques en disent

'This page-turner of a book compellingly tracks the relation between science and religion, eternally bickering siblings, across two millennia. The ironies of the collaborations and oppositions between the two are brilliantly set out. You don’t have to have religious belief to recognise that science doesn’t always have the right answers. The real question: who has the authority to make statements about the natural world? Nicholas Spencer well shows that this authority–formerly in the hands of religious authorities, now usually scientific ones–has been effortfully constructed and disagreed over across time.'—Chris Wickham, author of The Inheritance of Rome

'This sweeping and comprehensive look at the "war" between religion and science lays it bare as a nineteenth-century myth. Studying God’s Works–what we call "science"–was historically as important to Christianity as studying his Word. The battles we’ve mythologised–from the ancient mathematician Hypatia’s murder by a Christian mob, to Galileo kneeling before the Inquisition, to the 1925 Scopes “monkey” trial–were not about ideology, but authority. A compelling act of myth-busting.'—Nancy Marie Brown, author of The Abacus and the Cross

'Nicholas Spencer’s Magisteria is an indeed magisterial and brilliant attempt to bring a more up-to-date and sophisticated understanding of the intricate historical relationship between science and religion to a popular audience. Readers will be both entertained and surprised. He has done the cause of improved inter-human understanding a real service.'—Professor John Milbank

Ce que les auditeurs disent de Magisteria

Moyenne des évaluations de clients
Au global
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 étoiles
    1
  • 4 étoiles
    0
  • 3 étoiles
    0
  • 2 étoiles
    0
  • 1 étoile
    0
Performance
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 étoiles
    1
  • 4 étoiles
    0
  • 3 étoiles
    0
  • 2 étoiles
    0
  • 1 étoile
    0
Histoire
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 étoiles
    1
  • 4 étoiles
    0
  • 3 étoiles
    0
  • 2 étoiles
    0
  • 1 étoile
    0

Évaluations – Cliquez sur les onglets pour changer la source des évaluations.