Mission and Science(English, Paperback, unknown)

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Mission and Science(English, Paperback, unknown) is written by unknown and published by Leuven University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9462700346 (ISBN 10) and 9789462700345 (ISBN 13).

Science as an instrument to justify religious missions in secular society The relationship between religion and science is complex and continues to be a topical issue. However, it is seldom zoomed in on from both Protestant andCatholic perspectives. By doing so the contributing authors in this collection gain new insights into the origin and development of missiology. Missiology is described in this book as a "project of modernity," a contemporary form of apologetics. "Scientific apologetics" was the way to justify missions in a society that was rapidly becoming secularized. Mission & Science deals with the interaction between new scientific disciplines (historiography, geography, ethnology, anthropology, linguistics) and new scientific insights (Darwin's evolutionary theory, heliocentrism), as well as the role of the papacy and what inspired missionary practice (first in China and the Far East and later in Africa). The renewed missiology has in turn influenced the missionary practice of the twentieth century, guided by apostolic policy. Some "missionary scholars" have even had a significant influence on the scientific discourse of their time. La relation entre religion et science a beau etre complexe et toujours actuelle, protestants et catholiques s'etaient rarement penches sur le sujet. En se livrant a l'exercice dans ce livre, les auteurs ont fait de nouvelles decouvertes sur la naissance et le developpement de la missiologie. Celle-ci est decrite dans l'ouvrage comme un << projet de modernite >>, une forme contemporaine d'apologetique. Cette << apologetique scientifique >> etait le moyen par excellence de justifier l'existence des missions. Cette publication aborde tant l'interaction avec les nouvelles disciplines scientifiques (historiographie, geographie, ethnologie, anthropologie, linguistique) et les nouvelles theories scientifiques (evolutionnisme de Darwin, heliocentrisme) que le role de la papaute et l'inspiration de la pratique missionnaire (d'abord en Chine et en Extreme-Orient, puis en Afrique). Cette missiologie << enrichie >> a a son tour agi sur la pratique missiologique du XXe siecle, soutenue dans cette voie par la politique apostolique. Certains << missionnaires savants >> ont meme influence de maniere remarquable le discours scientifique de leur epoque.This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content). Contributors: Giancarlo Collet (University of Muenster), Neil Collins (Missionary Society of St. Columban), Mariano Delgado (Universite de Fribourg), Norman Etherington (University of Western Australia), Patrick Harries (Universitaet Basel), Jan A.B. Jongeneel (Universiteit Utrecht), Philippe Laburthe-Tolra (Universite de Paris V Sorbonne), Eugene Lapointe (Universite Saint-Paul Ottawa), Magnus Lundberg (Uppsala University), David Neuhold (Universite de Fribourg), Peter Nissen (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen), Armin Owzar (Universite de Paris 3), Olivier Rota (Universite d'Artois), Marc Spindler (Universiteit Leiden), Jan van Butselaar (Protestantse Kerk in Nederland), An Vandenberghe (Zorgbedrijf OCMW Antwerpen), Dirk Van Overmeire (KADOC-KU Leuven), Frans J. Verstraelen (State University of Zimbabwe), Laurick Zerbini (Universite Lyon 2), Jean-Francois Zorn (Institut Protestant de Theologie-Faculte de Montpellier).