Stages of Thought The Co-Evolution of

This book provides a unique exploration of the relationship betweenreligious and scientific thought. Arguing that these two modes of thought arecomplementary, Barnes delineates the successive stages of the co-evolution ofreligious and scientific thought in the West, from the preliterate culture ofantiquity up to the present day.

Michael H. Barnes is Professor of Religious Studies and Alumni Chair in Humanities, The University of Dayton.

Introduction

3

(12)

Culture and Cognition

15

(19)

Addressing the Critics

34

(19)

Cognitive Styles in Primitive Cultures

53

(25)

Archaic Thought, Preliterate and Literate

78

(15)

The Axial Age and the Classical Style of Thought

93

(19)

Philosophy, Religion, and Science in Western Antiquity

112

(20)

The Decline and Recovery of Classical Rationality in the West

132

(20)

Early Modern Models of Reality in Science and Religion

152

(23)

The Method of Modern Empirical Science

175

(25)

Religious Responses to Modern Science

200

(33)

Notes

233

(65)

Bibliography

298

(25)

Index

323

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Stages of Thought The Co-Evolution of Religious Thought and Science

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