Reviews

"Theology and the Scientific Imagination should be read by every historian of science. I can also hardly imagine a philosopher of science who would remain indifferent to the roots of modern thinking. The reading of this book gives one a deep intellectual pleasure: to follow adventures in ideas is like experiencing the adventures themselves."--Michael Heller, The Review of Metaphysics "[This work] promises to raise the level and transform the nature of discourse on the relations of Christianity and science... a bold study of ideas ... bristling with insight and perceptive reinterpretation of familiar episodes in the history of natural philosophy."--David C. Lindberg, Journal of the History of Medicine "Funkenstein's powerful essay belongs to that genre of intellectual history which has addressed itself to ... the metaphysical foundations of modern science... Liberation from naive conceptions of historical continuity gives Funkenstein leave to concentrate on a finely nuanced exegesis of those philosophers who fall within his purview. The result is a work of discernment and distinction..."--J. H. Brooke, The Times Higher Education Supplement