Reconciling Science and Religion The Debate in Early-Twentieth-Century Britain

Name: Reconciling Science and Religion The Debate in Early-Twentieth-Century Britain
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ISBN: 9780226068589

ISBN-10: 0226068587

ISBN-13: 9780226068589

Edition: 2001

Authors: Peter J. Bowler

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This text provides a survey of the interplay between British science and religion up to World War II. It argues that, unlike the US, where an opposition to evolutionism developed, Britain made a concerted effort to reconcile science and religion.

Book details

List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/1/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 480
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English

Peter J. Bowleris Reader in the History of Science at Queen's University, Belfast, and is well known on both sides of the Atlantic for his books on the history of evolutionism.



Illustrations


Preface


Introduction: A Legacy of Conflict?


Confrontation, Cooperation, or Coexistence?


Victorian Background


Science and Religion in the New Century



The Sciences and Religion



The Religion of Scientists


Changing Patterns of Belief


Scientists and Christianity


Scientists and Theism


Method and Meaning


Science and Values



Scientists against Superstition


Science and Rationalism


Religion without Revelation


Marxists and Other Radicals


Science, Religion, and the History of Science



Physics and Cosmology


Ether and Spirit


The New Physics


The Earth and the Universe



Evolution and the New Natural Theology


Science and Creation


Evolution and Progress


The Role of Lamarckism


Darwinism Revived



Matter, Life, and Mind


The Origin of Life


Vitalism and Organicism


Mind and Body


Psychology and Religion



The Churches and Science



The Churches in the New Century


The Challenge of the New


The Churches' Response



The New Theology in the Free Churches


Precursors of the New Theology


Campbell and the New Theology


Modernism in the Free Churches



Anglican Modernism


Modernism and the New Natural Theology


Charles F. D'Arcy


E. W. Barnes


W. R. Inge


Charles Raven



The Reaction against Modernism


Evangelicals against Evolution


Liberal Catholicism


The Menace of the New Psychology


Science and Modern Life


Theology in the Thirties


Roman Catholicism



The Wider Debate



Science and Secularism


Against Idealism


Popular Rationalism


The Social Reformers



Religion's Defenders


From Idealism to Spiritualism


Creative and Emergent Evolution


Evolution and the Human Spirit


Progress through Struggle


The Christian Response


Epilogue


Biographical Appendix


Bibliography


Index