Israel In Prophecy

Last Name

PRICKETT

First Name

Stephen

Title

Narrative, Religion, and Science: Fundamentalism versus Irony, 1700-1999.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Year

2002

Group

PMO5

Comments

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Contents:

• Introduction: Arthur Dent, Screwtape and the mysteries of story-telling
• Postmodernism, grand narratives and just-so stories
• Newton and Kissinger: science as irony?
• Learning to say 'I': literature and subjectivity
• Reconstructing religion: fragmentation, typology and symbolism
• The ache in the missing limb: language, truth and presence
• Twentieth-century fundamentalisms: theology, truth and irony
• Science and religion: language, metaphor and consilience
• Concluding conversational postscript: The tomb of Napoleon