By Peter M.J Hess
When most folk take into consideration Catholicism and technological know-how, they'll immediately ponder one of many well-known occasions within the background of technological know-how - the condemnation of Galileo via the Roman Catholic Church. however the interplay of Catholics with technological know-how has been - and is - way more complicated and optimistic than that depicted within the legend of the Galileo affair. figuring out the wildlife has continually been a power of Catholic concept and learn - from the good theologians of the center a long time to the current day - and technological know-how has been a trademark of Catholic schooling for centuries.
Catholicism and Science, a quantity within the Greenwood publications to technology and Religion sequence, covers all points of the connection of technological know-how and the Church: How Catholics interacted with the profound adjustments within the actual sciences (natural philosophy) and organic sciences (natural background) throughout the clinical Revolution; how Catholic scientists reacted to the speculation of evolution and their makes an attempt to make evolution suitable with Catholic theology; and the results of Roman Catholic doctrinal and ethical teachings for neuroscientific examine, and for research into genetics and cloning.
The quantity comprises fundamental resource files, a thesaurus and timeline of vital occasions, and an annotated bibliography of the main important works for extra research
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