Wisdom or Knowledge?

Is scientific knowledge wisdom, or is it more limited - effective, useful, applicable, but not what we mean by wisdom? And is the wisdom of ages past embodied in the great religious traditions still wisdom for our time, as we have to face new challenges,

List of Contributors

vii

Preface and Acknowledgements

xi

Abbreviations

xiii

Introduction: Mapping the Issues

1

(9)

Hubert Meisinger

Progress in Science and Theology

10

(15)

Dirk Evers

The Reliability of Science and its Cultural Impact

25

(13)

Mariano Artigas

`Don't Drink from that Dirty Stream!' The Decline of Science and Theology as Sources of Wisdom in Europe

38

(13)

Chris Wiltsher

Disjoining Wisdom and Knowledge: Science, Theology and the Making of Western Modernity

51

(22)

Peter Harrison

Wisdom through Communion and Personhood: From Patristic Theology to Contemporary Science

73

(18)

Alexei V. Nesteruk

Walking on Hermeneutic Territory: The Horizons of Sense for a Pilgrim

91

(17)

Lucio Florio

Where Streams Meet? Ecology, Wisdom and Beauty in Bulgakov, von Balthasar and Aquinas

108

(19)

Celia Deane-Drummond

Biotechnology and Ethics: A Locus for the Reintegration of Science and Wisdom?

127

(8)

Michael Fuller

Food Safety and Food Justice: Impacts of Scientific and Religious Cultures

135

(10)

Antje Jackelen

To Know is to Make: Knowledge, Ignorance and Belief in a Technological Society

145

(8)

Walther Ch. Zimmerli

Index

153

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