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1 online resource (xviii, 252 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color). |
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Medicine, science, and religion in historical context
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Medicine, science, and religion in historical context.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-239) and index. |
| Contents |
The activist and the philosopher: the hexaemerons of Basil and of Gregory of Nyssa -- Two conceptions of the world: the schools of Antioch and Alexandria -- No icons, no science: the end of a tradition? -- The return of Greek science: the first Byzantine humanism (ninth century to the twelfth century) -- Struggle for heritage: science in Nicea and the Byzantine Renaissance -- The era of the palaiologos: political debates become scientific -- True knowledge and ephemeral knowledge: the hesychast debate of the fourteenth century -- Ancients versus moderns: Byzantium and Persian, Latin and Jewish sciences, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries -- The fall of the empire and the exodus to Italy, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries -- A rebel patriarch: Cyril Lucaris and Orthodox Humanism in science -- Toward Russia: the Slavo-Greco-Latin academy and the Jerusalem patriarchate -- Who were the heirs of the Hellenes?: science and the Greek Enlightenment -- The scientific modernization of an Orthodox state: Greece from independence to membership in the European Union -- Science and religion in the Greek state: materialism and Darwinism. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Orthodox Eastern Church -- Doctrines.
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Orthodox Eastern Church. |
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Orthodox Eastern Church. |
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Religion and science -- History.
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Religion and science. |
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History. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Dictionaries.
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Dictionaries.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Nikolaidēs, E. Science and Eastern Orthodoxy. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2011 (DLC) 2011009987 |
| ISBN |
9781421404264 (electronic book) |
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1421404265 (electronic book) |
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9781421402987 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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142140298X (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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