Summary: | Big questions and the complex engagements of science and religion in history / Donald A. Yerxa -- Science and religion in historical perspective -- Assessing the relations between science and religion / William R. Shea -- Response to William Shea / Edward J. Larson -- Comments on William Shea / Ronald L. Numbers -- Rejoinder to Numbers and Larson / William R. Shea -- Complexity and the history of science and religion -- Science, religion, and historical complexity / John Hedley Brooke -- Reply to Brooke / William R. Shea -- Science, religion, and the cartographies of complexity / David N. Livingstone -- Response / John Hedley Brooke -- Herbert Butterfield and the scientific revolution -- Reassessing the Butterfield thesis / Peter Harrison -- Response to Harrison / William R. Shea -- The Butterfield thesis and the scientific revolution : comments on Peter Harrison / David C. Lindberg -- Response to Harrison : Butterfield's origins of modern science and the scientific revolution / Charles C. Gillispie -- Rejoinder to Gillespie, Lindberg, and Shea / Peter Harrison -- Progress in history -- Progress in history / Bruce Mazlish -- Progress : directionality or betterment / David Christian -- Progress as parochialism / J.C.D. Clark -- Progress in history / Robert E. Lucas, Jr. -- Contingency, necessity, teleology, and progress : reply to Mazlish / Aviezer Tucker -- Rejoinder / Bruce Mazlish
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