Dear Colleagues,

Please find attached the 'Foreword' of Almagest 8-2 (November 2017) focused on the topic of science and Orthodox Christianity.

Contents

John Hedley Brooke and Ronald L. Numbers: Into all the World: expanding the History of Science and Religion beyond the Abrahamic Faiths

Anne-Laurence Caudano: Cosmography, Asceticism and Female Patronage in Late Byzantine and Slavic Miscellanies

Michael H. Shank: The Almagest, Politics, and Apocalypticism in the Conflict between George of Trebizond and Cardinal Bessarion

Flora Vafea: The Astronomical Instruments in Saint Catherine’s Iconography at the Holy Monastery of Sinai

Tomislav Petković: R. J. Bošković as European Scientist and Theologian at Work on the Bridges between Science and Religion. Essay on Bošković’s top concept and epistemological interpretation of God 

Kostas Tampakis: Orthodoxy and Science in the Greek State, 1830-1939.

With our best wishes,

The HPDST Team.

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