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Reconciling Science and Religion : the Debate in Early-Twentieth-Century Britain
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- English
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010
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- 1 online resource (494 pages)
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- 9780226068572, 0226068579, 9780226068589
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- on1027584522
- Illustrations -- E. Ray Lankester -- J.B.S. Haldane -- J.D. Bernal -- Oliver Lodge -- A.S. Eddington -- Arthur Keith -- Julian Huxley -- J.S. Haldane -- Joseph Needham -- E.W. Barnes -- W.R. Inge -- Charles Raven -- Charles Gore -- H.G. Wells -- George Bernard Shaw -- G.K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc -- 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 -- Changing Patterns of Belief
- Mind and Body -- Psychology and Religion -- Part Two: The Churches and Science -- 6. The Churches in the New Century -- The Challenge of the New -- The Churches' Response -- 7. The New Theology in the Free Churches -- Precursors of the New Theology -- Campbell and the New Theology -- Modernism in the Free Churches -- 8. Anglican Modernism -- Modernism and the New Natural Theology -- Charles F. D'Arcy -- E.W. Barnes -- W.R. Inge -- Charles Raven -- 9. 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 -- Part Three: The Wider Debate -- 10. Science and Secularism -- Against Idealism -- Popular Rationalism -- The Social Reformers -- 11. Religion's Defenders -- From Idealism to Spiritualism -- Creative and Emergent Evolution -- Evolution and the Human Spirit -- Progress through Struggle -- The Christian Response -- Epilogue -- Biographical Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index
- Scientists and Christianity -- Scientists and Theism -- Method and Meaning -- Science and Values -- 2. Scientists against Superstition -- Science and Rationalism -- Religion without Revelation -- Marxists and Other Radicals -- Science, Religion, and the History of Science -- 3. Physics and Cosmology -- Ether and Spirit -- The New Physics -- The Earth and the Universe -- 4. Evolution and the New Natural Theology -- Science and Creation -- Evolution and Progress -- The Role of Lamarckism -- Darwinism Revived -- 5. Matter, Life, and Mind -- The Origin of Life -- Vitalism and Organicism