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Reconciling science and religion : the debate in early-twentieth-century Britain / Peter J. Bowler.
LIBRA BL245 .B69 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bowler, Peter J.
- Series:
- Science and its conceptual foundations
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion and science--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Religion and science.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 479 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.
- Contents:
- Introduction: A Legacy of Conflict? 1
- Confrontation, Cooperation, or Coexistence?
- Victorian Background
- Science and Religion in the New Century
- Part 1 The Sciences and Religion 25
- 1 The Religion of Scientists 27
- Changing Patterns of Belief
- Scientists and Christianity
- Scientists and Theism
- Method and Meaning
- Science and Values
- 2 Scientists against Superstition 59
- Science and Rationalism
- Religion without Revelation
- Marxists and Other Radicals
- Science, Religion, and the History of Science
- 3 Physics and Cosmology 87
- Ether and Spirit
- The New Physics
- The Earth and the Universe
- 4 Evolution and the New Natural Theology 122
- Science and Creation
- Evolution and Progress
- The Role of Lamarckism
- Darwinism Revived
- 5 Matter, Life, and Mind 160
- The Origin of Life
- Vitalism and Organicism
- Mind and Body
- Psychology and Religion
- Part 2 The Churches and Science 191
- 6 The Churches in the New Century 193
- The Challenge of the New
- The Churches' Response
- 7 The New Theology in the Free Churches 215
- Precursors of the New Theology
- Campbell and the New Theology
- Modernism in the Free Churches
- 8 Anglican Modernism 244
- Modernism and the New Natural Theology
- Charles F. D'Arcy
- E. W. Barnes
- W. R. Inge
- Charles Raven
- 9 The Reaction against Modernism 287
- Evangelicals against Evolution
- Liberal Catholicism
- The Menace of the New Psychology
- Science and Modern Life
- Theology in the Thirties
- Roman Catholicism
- Part 3 The Wider Debate 329
- 10 Science and Secularism 331
- Against Idealism
- Popular Rationalism
- The Social Reformers
- 11 Religion's Defenders 362
- From Idealism to Spiritualism
- Creative and Emergent Evolution
- Evolution and the Human Spirit
- Progress through Struggle
- The Christian Response.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-470) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0226068587
- OCLC:
- 45909378
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