Orthodox Christianity and the Study of Nature. Histories of Interaction

Hardback, 268 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:1 tables b/w., Language: English. *new ISBN 9782503612461. TABLE OF CONTENTS Kostas Tampakis and Ronald Numbers, Introduction. Eastern and Western, Orthodoxies and Heterodoxies, Sciences and Religions Gerasimos Merianos, Aspects of the Relationship between Alchemy and Christianity in Byzantium Nicholas Jacobson, Religion and Lawgiving in Astronomical Tables. Tables of Time and the Council of Florence-Ferrara (1431-1449) Olga ?adajeva, Cosmology in Russian Thought on the Eve of Modernity Sandy Sakorrafou, Introducing Western Natural Theology in the Greek Orthodox Christian World (Late Eighteenth to Mid-Nineteenth Century). The Cases of Pamblekis, Lesvios, and Vamvas Daniel P. Todes and Eleonora Filippova, Prayer as Paradigm. Aleksei Ukhtomsky, the Dominanta, and the Psycho-Physiology of Salvation Kostas Tampakis, Science as an Orthodox Weapon and the Politics of Anti-Communism in Mid-Twentieth Century Greece Christopher W. Howell, The Holiness of Creation. Philip Sherrard and the Climate Apocalypse Vangelis Koutalis and Efthymios Nicolaidis, The Recent Literature about the History of the Relations between Orthodoxy and the Sciences. An Overview