Wisdom or Knowledge [Paperback]

The book will consider science and the nature of 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, opportunities and responsibilities? To what extent are science and theology determined by their cultural setting? To what extent do they influence the development of culture? Thus, the reader herself or himself will be encouraged to 'drink' from the streams of wisdom and knowledge which will be investigated in the book in order to think anew about the rather simple separation between two cultures which has prevailed for a rather long time in scientific, theological and cultural thinking.

Progress in Science and Theology

Dirk Evers



The Reliability of Science and its Cultural Impact

Mariano Artigas



Don't drink from that dirty stream!' The Decline of Science and Theology as Source of Wisdom in Europe

Chris Wiltsher



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

Peter Harrison



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

Alexei V. Nesteruk



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

Lucio Florio



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

Celia Deane-Drummond



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