Science and Eastern Orthodoxy: From the Greek Fathers to the Age of Globalization

Contents

c o n t e n t s Introduction vii Chronology xiii 1 The Activist and the Philosopher: The Hexaemerons of Basil and of Gregory of Nyssa 1 2 Two Conceptions of the World: The Schools of Antioch and Alexandria 24 3 No Icons, No Science: The End of a Tradition? 40 4 The Return of Greek Science: The First Byzantine Humanism 55 5 Struggle for Heritage: Science in Nicaea and the Byzantine Renaissance 69 6 Political Debates Become Scientific: The Era of the Palaiologos 81 7 True Knowledge and Ephemeral Knowledge: The Hesychast Debate 93 8 Ancients versus Moderns: Byzantium and Persian, Latin, and Jewish Sciences 106 9 The Fall of the Empire and the Exodus to Italy 119 10 A Rebel Patriarch: Cyril Lucaris and Orthodox Humanism in Science 130 11 Toward Russia: The Slavo-Greco-Latin Academy and the Patriarchate of Jerusalem 140 12 Who Were the Heirs of the Hellenes? Science and the Greek Enlightenment 151 vi Contents 13 The Scientific Modernization of an Orthodox State: Greece from Independence to the European Union 169 14 Science and Religion in the Greek State: Materialism and Darwinism 180 Conclusion 193 A Note on Secondary Sources 197 Notes 203 Selected Bibliography 229 Index 241 Illustrations follow page 124 ...