Reconciling science and religion : the debate in early-twentieth-century Britain / Peter J. Bowler
- Author
- Bowler, Peter J.
- Published
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 479 pages) : illustrations
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- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- 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.
- Summary
- Although much has been written about the vigorous debates over science and religion in the Victorian era, little attention has been paid to their continuing importance in early twentieth-century Britain. Reconciling Science and Religion provides a comprehensive survey of the interplay between British science and religion from the late nineteenth century to World War II. Peter J. Bowler argues that unlike the United States, where a strong fundamentalist opposition to evolutionism developed in the 1920s (most famously expressed in the Scopes "monkey trial" of 1925), in Britain there was
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- 9780226068572 (electronic bk.)
0226068579 (electronic bk.)
1282901788
9781282901780
9786612901782
6612901780
0226068587
9780226068589 - Digital File Characteristics
- text file
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-470) and index.
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