Book contents
- After Science and Religion
- Reviews
- After Science and Religion
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Modern Historians on ‘Science’ and ‘Religion’
- Part II Beyond ‘Science and Religion’
- Chapter 3 Science and Theology
- Chapter 4 Religion, Science and Magic
- Chapter 5 Science, Beauty and the Creative Word
- Chapter 6 Questioning the Science and Religion Question
- Chapter 7 Truth, Science and Re-enchantment
- Chapter 8 Understanding Our Knowing
- Part III Philosophical Problems with ‘Science’ and ‘Religion’
- Part IV Before Science and Religion
- References
- Index
Chapter 7 - Truth, Science and Re-enchantment
from Part II - Beyond ‘Science and Religion’
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2022
- After Science and Religion
- Reviews
- After Science and Religion
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Modern Historians on ‘Science’ and ‘Religion’
- Part II Beyond ‘Science and Religion’
- Chapter 3 Science and Theology
- Chapter 4 Religion, Science and Magic
- Chapter 5 Science, Beauty and the Creative Word
- Chapter 6 Questioning the Science and Religion Question
- Chapter 7 Truth, Science and Re-enchantment
- Chapter 8 Understanding Our Knowing
- Part III Philosophical Problems with ‘Science’ and ‘Religion’
- Part IV Before Science and Religion
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter considers one of the major alternatives to reductionist, mechanistic philosophy in the seventeenth century, focusing upon three key English figures: Herbert of Cherbury, Robert Greville, and Anne Conway. While these thinkers have typically been relegated to the margins of the history of philosophy and science, they nonetheless represent a significant, if largely eclipsed tradition, and one that shows how, during this period, ‘disenchanted’ understandings of nature were not the sole option, and how they could co-exist with scientific conceptions of nature. Accordingly, these figures exemplify ways of being modern and scientific without abandoning an ‘enchanted’ view of the natural world.
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- After Science and ReligionFresh Perspectives from Philosophy and Theology, pp. 171 - 200Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022