A New Natural Philosophy: Recovering a Natural Science and Christian Pedagogy

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Join Ravi Scott Jain (coauthor of  The Liberal Arts Tradition ), Chris Hall (author of  Common Arts Education ), and veteran science educator Robbie Andreasen as they seek to recover the “natural” in natural science, the wisdom in “philosophy,” and the worship that flows from wonder. Aristotle said that philosophy (the love of wisdom) always begins in wonder—wonder that often is kindled as we gaze upon the astonishing world around us. Yet today our science classes too often neglect the wonder evoked by the natural world and instead occlude and stifle it. How, then, can our science classes reconnect wonder to nature, wonder that will lead to wisdom, work, and worship? This book seeks to answer that question by helping recover the “natural” in natural science, the wisdom in “philosophy,” and the worship that flows from wonder. Applying C. S. Lewis’s vision of “a new Natural Philosophy” and the deep insights of Christian thought to the understanding and pedagogy of natural science, the authors suggest a new paradigm that reveals God’s hand and purposes in the foundations and methods of science and allows students to see its sources, ideas, and conflicts more clearly…