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Online-Ressource (494 p)
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9780226068596
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0226068587
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9780226068572
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9780226068589
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Science and Its Conceptual Foundations S
Content:
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 Brita
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Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Introduction: A Legacy of Conflict?; Confrontation, Cooperation, or Coexistence?; Victorian Background; Science and Religion in the New Century; Part One: The Sciences and Religion; 1. The Religion of Scientists; 2. Scientists against Superstition; E. Ray Lankester; J. B. S. Haldane; J. D. Bernal; 3. Physics and Cosmology; Oliver Lodge; A. S. Eddington; 4. Evolution and the New Natural Theology; Arthur Keith; Julian Huxley; 5. Matter, Life, and Mind; J. S. Haldane; Joseph Needham; Part Two: The Churches and Science; 6. The Churches in the New Century
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7. The New Theology in the Free Churches8. Anglican Modernism; E.W. Barnes; W. R. Inge; Charles Raven; 9. The Reaction against Modernism; Charles Gore; Part Three: The Wider Debate; 10. Science and Secularism; H. G.Wells; 11. Religion's Defenders; George Bernard Shaw; G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc; Epilogue; Biographical Appendix; Bibliography; Index
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Introduction: A Legacy of Conflict?Confrontation, Cooperation, or Coexistence?Victorian BackgroundScience and Religion in the New CenturyThe Sciences and ReligionThe Religion of ScientistsChanging Patterns of BeliefScientists and ChristianityScientists and TheismMethod and MeaningScience and ValuesScientists against SuperstitionScience and RationalismReligion without RevelationMarxists and Other RadicalsScience, Religion, and the History of SciencePhysics and CosmologyEther and SpiritThe New PhysicsThe Earth and the UniverseEvolution and the New Natural TheologyScience and CreationEvolution and ProgressThe Role of LamarckismDarwinism RevivedMatter, Life, and MindThe Origin of LifeVitalism and OrganicismMind and BodyPsychology and ReligionThe Churches and ScienceThe Churches in the New CenturyThe Challenge of the NewThe Churches' ResponseThe New Theology in the Free ChurchesPrecursors of the New TheologyCampbell and the New TheologyModernism in the Free ChurchesAnglican ModernismModernism and the New Natural TheologyCharles F. D'ArcyE.W. BarnesW.R. IngeCharles RavenThe Reaction against ModernismEvangelicals against EvolutionLiberal CatholicismThe Menace of the New PsychologyScience and Modern LifeTheology in the ThirtiesRoman CatholicismThe Wider DebateScience and SecularismAgainst Idealism.
Additional Edition:
9780226068572
Additional Edition:
9780226068589
Additional Edition:
Print version Reconciling Science and Religion : The Debate in Early-Twentieth-Century Britain
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English
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