Narrative, Religion and Science: Fundamentalism versus Irony, 1700–1999

ISBN: 9780521009836 出版年：2002 页码：291 Prickett Cambridge University Press

Introduction: Arthur Dent, Screwtape, and the mysteries of story telling 1. Post-modernism, grand narratives, and Just-So stories 2. Newton and Kissinger: science as irony? 3. Learning to say 'I': literature and subjectivity 4. Reconstructing religion: fragmentation, typology and symbolism 5. The ache in the missing limb: language, truth, and presence 6. Twentieth-century fundamentalisms: theology, truth, and irony 7. Science and religion: language, metaphor, and consilience Concluding observational postscript: the tomb of Napoleon Bibliography.