Science and Eastern orthodoxy : from the Greek fathers to the age of globalization / Efthymios Nicolaidis ; translated by Susan Emanuel.
Pubblicazione:
Baltimore : John Hopkins university press, c2012.
Descrizione fisica:
XVIII, 252 p., [14] p. di tav. : ill., ritr. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Introduction. Chronology. 1 The activist and the philosopher: the Hexaemerons of Basil and of Gregory of Nyssa 2. Two conceptions of the world: the schools of Antioch and Alexandria 3. No icons, no science: the end of a tradition? 4. The return of Greek science: the first Byzantine humanism 5. Struggle for heritage: science in Nicaea and the Byzantine renaissance 6. Political debates become scientific: the era of the Palaiologos 7. True knowledge and ephemeral knowledge: the hesychast debate 8. Ancients versus moderns: Byzantium and Persian, Latin, and Jewish sciences 9. The fall of the empire and the exodus to Italy 10. A rebel patriarch: Cyril Lucaris and orthodox humanism in science 11. Toward Russia: the Slavo-Greco-Latin academy and the patriarchate of Jerusalem 12. Who were the heirs of the Hellenes? Science and the Greek enlightenment 13. The scientific modernization of an orthodox state: Greece from independence to the European union 14. Science and religion in the Greek state: materialism and Darwinism. Conclusion. A note on secondary sources. Notes. Selected bibliography. Index. Illustrations follow page
Martelli, Matteo 1975- Recensione].