{"product_id":"science-and-spirituality-4","title":"Science and Spirituality","description":"\u003cp\u003eUntil the end of the eighteenth century, almost everyone believed that the empirical world of science could produce evidence for a wise and loving God. By the twenty-first century this comforting certainty has almost vanished. What caused such a cataclysmic change in attitudes to science and to the world?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eScience and Spirituality \u003c\/em\u003eoffers a new history of the interaction between Western science and faith, which explores their volatile connection, and challenges the myth of their being locked in inevitable conflict.\u003cbr\u003eJourneying from the French Revolution to the present day, and taking in such figures as Francis Bacon, René Descartes, Charles Darwin, Immanuel Kant, Albert Einstein, Mary Shelley and Stephen Hawking, David Knight shows how science evolved from medieval and Renaissance forms of natural theology into the empirical discipline we know today. Focusing on the overthrow of Church and State in revolutionary France, and on the crucial nineteenth century period when a newly emerging scientific community rendered science culturally accessible, \u003cem\u003eScience and Spirituality \u003c\/em\u003eshows how scientific disenchantment has provided some of our most flexible and powerful metaphors for God, such as the hidden puppet-master and the blind watchmaker, and illustrates how questions of moral and spiritual value continue to intervene in scientific endeavour.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54255641461080,"sku":"9780415257695","price":59.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780415257695_903bc2a1-a058-4b8d-9228-0a7af92ab9bf.jpg?v=1770165928","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/science-and-spirituality-4","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}