TY  - BOOK
AU  - Clouser,Roy A.
TI  - The Myth of religious neutrality: an essay on the hidden role of religious belief in theories 
SN  - 9780268023669
AV  - BL 240.3 C625 2005
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Notre Dame, IN
PB  - University of Notre Dame Press
KW  - RELIGION AND SCIENCE
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - THEORY REDUCTION
KW  - PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION
KW  - THEORY (PHILOSOPHY)
KW  - REDUCTIONISM
N1  - Contents:
1. What is religion?
2. Types of religious belief
- The basis for typing religions
- The pagan type
- The pantheistic type
- The Biblical type
- why think anything divine at all?
3. What is theory?
4. Theories and religion: the alternatives
- Religious irrationalism
- Religious rationalism
- The radically Biblical position
- Religious scholasticism
- The conflict of these alternatives
5. The idea of religious control
6. Theories in Mathematics
- The number-world theory
- The theory of J.S. Mill
- The theory of Russell
- The theory of Dewey
- What difference do such theories make?
- The role of religion in these theories
7. Theories in Physics
- Some misunderstanding to avoid
- The theory of Mach
- The theory of Einstein
- The theory of Heisenberg
- What difference do such theories make?
- The role of religion in these theories
8. Theories in Psychology
- The theories of Watson, Thorndike, and Skinner
- The theories of Adler and Fromm
- Human nature
9. The need for a new beginning
- Why are theories unavoidably regulated some divinity belief?
- A philosophical critique of reduction as a strategy for theories
- A religious critique of reduction as a strategy for theories
- The Cappadocian and reformational theological traditions
- Replies to objections
10. A non-reductionist theory of reality
- The project of non-reductionist theories
- Some guiding principles
- The framework of laws theory
- The natures of things
11. A non-reductionist theory of society
- Fact versus norm
- Individualism versus collectivism
- Parts and wholes
- Sphere sovereignty
12. A non-reductionist theory of the state

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