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Science and religion : being the Morse lectures for 1924 / by J. Arthur Thomson.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur), 1861-1933, author.
- Thomson, David Landsborough, author of appendix.
- Series:
- Morse lectures ; 1924.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion and science--1900-.
- Religion and science.
- Natural theology.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (former owner) (Adams copy)
- Physical Description:
- viii, 280 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Charles. Scribner's Sons, 1925.
- Contents:
- Chapter I. Science and Religion
- The so-called conflict should cease
- The aims and methods of science
- Laws of nature
- Scientific analysis
- Science in part historical
- The scientific "why"
- In what sense does science explain?
- The scientific questions
- Limitations of science
- Religion
- The practical pathway to religion
- The emotional pathway
- The intellectual pathway
- Our limitations do not prove the validity of religious solutions
- No antithesis between scientific description and religious interpretation
- No idea-tight compartment
- Form and idea
- Chapter II. The unseen universe and the nature of things
- Beyond our sense
- Invisible life
- Secrets of life
- Structure of the atom
- Energy changes in the atom
- General impressions of matter: homogeneity, intricacy, activity, tenuity
- Error of supposing that the tenuity of the material makes the spiritual order more accessible
- The risk of forgetting "mind
- A personal heresy recommended: pan-psychism
- The spiritual order
- Religious interpretation of the domain of things
- The "argument" summarized
- Chapter III. The power of the world
- The outlook of primitive man
- The nature psalmists
- The modern change of temper
- The transformation of energy
- A short-cut to Deity
- The conservation of energy
- The origin of energies
- Atomic energies
- The quantum theory
- Relativity
- The outcome of our survey
- Chapter IV. The implications of life
- Emergence of organisms on the earth
- The criteria of livingness
- The characteristic qualities of living creatures: victorious insurgence
- Intricacy
- Effectiveness
- Adaptiveness
- Interlinkage
- Beauty
- Evolution
- The religious interpretation of animate nature
- Chapter V. Psychology and religion
- Problem to be faced
- The gradual emergence of the Psyche
- Integration: nervous, harmonic, and psychical
- Man's solidarity and apartness
- The vindication of personality
- Materialism
- Epiphenomenalism
- Biologism
- The unconscious
- Origin of Religion
- The correlates of religion
- The culture of personality
- Chapter VI. A contribution to natural religion
- Does science contribute to religion?
- What science discloses: intelligibility, order, continuity
- Progress in nature
- Correspondences in nature to Man's ideal of progress
- Does nature admit of religious interpretation?
- John Stuart Mill's arraignment of nature
- William James's one-sided view of nature
- Huxley's exaggeration of individualism in nature
- General conclusion: naturalistic description does not exclude transcendental interpretation
- The scientific account of nature is essentially congruent with the religious vision.
- Notes:
- Appendix, by David Landsborough Thomson: p. 243-274.
- "Copyright, 1925, by Charles Scribner's Sons. Published March, 1925. Reprinted June, July, October, december, 1925"--verso of title page
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-278) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur), 1861-1933. Science and religion.
- OCLC:
- 1134808
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