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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
December 2009
Print publication year:
1991
Online ISBN:
9780511557514
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511557514
Subjects:
History of Philosophy, Religion, Philosophy, Religion: General Interest
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Book description

This study explores the nature of the conflict between science and religion. It shows through a detailed examination of this conflict as it was manifested in nineteenth-century Britain that religion and science, properly understood, cannot co-exist in mutual harmony. The legacy of their conflict in the last century has been passed on to the twentieth century, greatly to the detriment of religious belief. It is the author's contention that a return to the essentials of Kant's critical philosophy would lay bare the profound differences between religious and scientific approaches to the world, and the nature of the choice to be made between them. In its effort to demarcate the outlines of a genuine biblical theology (and to articulate the proper procedures for producing one) the book casts light on important questions of biblical interpretation, and demands a radical reassessment of the meaning of science for society.

Reviews

"Zealous Kantians and disillusioned Anglo-American philosophers should find inspiration in this rigorous attempt to present a Continental response--in which conflict is not avoided--to the ongoing doubts about biblical literature." The Journal of Religion

"This is scholarship at its best: thorough, selective, intelligently critical, and highly readable." Theological Studies

"This book is valuable for the details it brings to light from nineteenth-century British biblical and religious debates, and to sound once again the call for creative theology which replies effectively to the questions posed by new knowledge." Walter J. Wilkins, Church History

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