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The American Historical Review
Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives
1994 •
John Hedley Brooke
Science and Religion: An Origins Story
2021 •
Samuel Loncar
Science and Religion. Does the Conflict Thesis hold its ground? The Galileo Affair and other examples from physics, medicine and geography.
Martin Huncovsky
St Andrew Encyclopaedia of Theology
The History of Science and Theology
2022 •
Peter Harrison
This entry offers a history of the different ways in which the formal study of the natural world has been related to theological considerations in the Western Christian tradition. Because what counts as science and what counts as theology has changed over time, it begins with a history of the concepts 'theology' and 'science' and the bearing of these conceptual shifts on their relationship. This is followed by a general account of the kinds of relations obtained between science and theology in different periods from antiquity to the present. A final section deals with three recurring issues that also exemplify some general principles.
The British Journal for the History of Science
Telling the story of science and religion: a nuanced account
1996 •
arie leegwater
A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom, Vol.1
1896 •
Emmett F Fields
Superior minds have addressed this question of Fact in conflict with Superstition and the most outstanding is Professor Andrew Dickinson White, Founder of Cornell University – Ezra Carnell provided the Funding and Prof. White provided the Brains. In the process of building Cornell University Prof. White found himself in constant conflict with Christian organizations and clergy to include, as fact, the disproved claims of Christianity. From his personal experience and superb research, Prof. White wrote: ‘A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom’ in two volumes. This magnificent set of Scholarly books should be in every Library in the United States, but is not. Emmett F. Fields
Loke, Andrew. 2023. ‘A new fourfold taxonomy of science-religion relations.’ Theology and Science 21:29-43.. Routledge.
Andrew Ter Ern Loke
Despite various criticisms and alternative proposals, Barbour's fourfold taxonomy has continued to serve as an intuitive introduction to Science-Religion relations. I offer a new fourfold taxonomy-called the Four 'C's Taxonomy: Conflict, Compartmentalization, Conversation, and Convergence-which improves upon the pedagogical advantages of Barbour's taxonomy, and which avoids the weaknesses of alternative taxonomies. In addition, the new taxonomy addresses the objections against Barbour's taxonomy by distinguishing different aspects of science and religion as the relata, by clarifying the relations as perceived/expressed relations, and by demonstrating their relevance for the explanation of history and of other cultures.
Some Aspects of the Controversial Nexus Between Science and Religion
2020 •
Alexandru Arion
The present paper takes into consideration a few aspects related to the relation between the two disputed domains of knowledge: science and religion. After having pointed out the main eight warfare and nonwarfare models of interaction between science and religion, the study focuses on the motives of Eastern and Western Christianity breach, which resides on the very different attitude to Science and Nature. The main part of depicting the nexus between the two fields of research is focusing on the doctrine of creation, the one Christian theology truly revolutionized. The Christian Weltanschauung was so new in comparison with Greek cosmology that it had to raise new questions and make radical modifications, especially regarding the understanding of space and time. The Fathers of the Orthodox Church were happy to use the science and philosophy of their time in their theological thinking. However, they did not pursue a natural theology in the sense the term is often now understood based ...
After Science and Religion
Science and Religion as Historical Traditions
2022 •
Peter Harrison
2016 saw the publication of Science and Religion: An Impossible Dialogue by French-Canadian sociologist Yves Gingras. 1 The book, it must said, does not constitute a particularly helpful intervention, and against the grain of virtually all recent scholarship presents a reactionary reassertion of the discredited notion of an enduring historical conflict between science and religion. 2 But it does offer an interesting challenge, evident in its title, in that it enquires after the conditions of possibility for a dialogue between science and religion, and raises the normative issue of whether such a dialogue is desirable. By way of contrast, much contemporary science-religion discussion has tended to assume, to some degree uncritically, both the possibility and desirability of dialogue between science and religion. 3 This chapter begins with the question posed by Gingras's book, asking what must be true of 'science' and 'religion' for dialogue between them to be possible. One obvious response to this question is that they must in some sense be commensurable: that is, be the kinds of entities that can be in conversation with each other. My suggestion will be the understanding them in these terms can perpetuate an illicit reification in which they come to be understood primarily as enterprises that deliver propositions about the world. The chapter explores two main alternatives: science and religion as formative practices; and science and religion as historical traditions. The latter argument proceeds by way of a discussion of the problem of incommensurability, and potential solutions to it. In both cases, some form of historically informed philosophy turns out to be vital for an understanding of the relations between science and religion.
Reformation and Renaissance Review
Review of God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science, by James Hannam. London: Icon Books, 2009. ix, 435 pp., Hb.,£ …
2010 •
Jonathan C P Birch
