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Author:   Efthymios Nicolaidis (Director of Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation) ,  Susan Emanuel
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9781421402987

ISBN 10:   142140298
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   09 February 2012
Recommended Age:   From 17
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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 for 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 inScience 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 Scientifi c 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

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An excellent contribution to college library world history and religious studies shelves. -- James A. Cox Midwest Book Review 2012

An excellent contribution to college library world history and religious studies shelves. -- James A. Cox Midwest Book Review A thorough and exacting refutation of the idea that Orthodoxy rejects science outright. -- Katherine Warton Times Literary Supplement This book provides the English-speaking reader with invaluable insights and references which cover nearly a continuous two-thousand year period of interaction between faith and knowledge, science and technology. This book will certainly make a serious contribution to existing scholarship on the history of the relation between science and Christianity. It fills an essential, and inadmissible gap in research related to Byzantium, Eastern Europe, and Russia. -- Alexei V. Nesteruk Perspectives in Science and Christian Faith Nicolaidis is well prepared to take on the difficult topic of science and Eastern Orthodoxy... The author lays an impressive foundation for future work... Highly recommended. Choice Nicolaidis offers not only a hitherto missing reference work, but also a fundamental contribution to the history of medieval science - and a challenging reference for future debates. -- Constantin Canavas Icon

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Author Website:   http://www.hpdst.gr/users/efthymios-nicolaidis

Efthymios Nicolaidis is director of the Programme for the History, Philosophy, and Didactics of Science and Technology at the National Hellenic Research Foundation. He has written and edited a number of books on the history of science in Byzantium and the Ottoman Empire and coedited L'Europe des sciences: constitution d'un espace scientifique.

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Author Website:   http://www.hpdst.gr/users/efthymios-nicolaidis

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