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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Barnes, Michael Horace. Stages of thought. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2000 (DLC) 99023759 (OCoLC)41368257 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael Horace Barnes |
ISBN: | 9780195350838 0195350839 1280834145 9781280834141 |
OCLC Number: | 428818219 |
Language Note: | English. |
Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 334 pages) |
Contents: | Culture and cognition -- Addressing the critics -- Cognitive styles in primitive cultures -- Archaic thought, preliterate and literate -- The Axial Age and the classical style of thought -- Philosophy, religion, and science in Western antiquity -- The decline and recovery of classical rationality in the West -- Early modern models of reality in science and religion -- The method of modern empirical science -- Religious responses to modern science. |
Responsibility: | Michael Horace Barnes. |
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the author has an admirable habit of taking his critics seriously, itself an inducement to take his carefully measured answers equally seriously. * John Habgood, TLS * In an excellent final chapter, he reviews a wide range of theological approaches * John Habgood, TLS * One of the most admirable features of this book is the even-handed treatment given to religious thought .. Barnes is also to be commended for emphasizing just how many different contributions there have been on both sides in the debate between religion and science in the past half-millennia or so. * Steve Else * backed up with a plethora of notes, and the whole is extremely well-referenced ... An erudite and thought-provoking read, it will particularly appeal to those involved in the study of religion, science, psychology and philosophy. * Steve Else * Read more...

