Creation: The Impact of an Idea

by Daniel O'Connor (Editor), Francis Oakley (Editor)

From the Table of Contents

General Introduction

PART I: Nature
1. DANIEL O'CONNOR, Introduction: TWO Philosophies of Nature
2. MICHAEL FOSTER, The Christian Doctrine of Creation and the
Rise of Modern Natural Science
3. FRANCIS OAKLEY, Christian Theology and the Newtonian
Science: The Rise of the Concept of the Laws of Nature
4. LYNN WHITE, JR., What Accelerated Technological Progress
in the Western Middles Ages?

PART II: Man
5. DANIEL O'CONNOR, Introduction: The Human and the Divine
6. EMIL BRUNNER, The Problem of Time
7. ERICH FRANK, Letter and Spirit
8. ETIENNE GILSON, Christian Optimism

PART III: Society
9. FRANCIS OAKLEY, Introduction: The Sacral Norm
10. AREND TH. VAN LEEUWEN, Kingship in Israel and in Babylon
11. NUMA FUSTEL DE COULANGES, Christianity Changes the
Conditions of Government
12. T. M. PARKER, The Western Church and the Post-Roman
World
13. BRIAN TIERNEY, Medieval Canon Law and Western
Constitutionalism

Epilogue
HANS JONAS, Jewish and Christian Elements in the Western
Philosophical Tradition

262 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1969