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Science and Christian Theism: A Mutual Witness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2009

Staleny L. Jaki
Affiliation:
P.O. Box 167 Princeton N.J. 08540 U.S.A.

Extract

The theme, science and Christian theism, is most likely to evoke today a curious mixture of reactions, mostly negative. While a celebration of warfare between science and Christianity is no longer a fare of the day as it was a century ago, Christianity is often taken for a vanquished enemy or for a successfully tamed beast. Such seems to be the case of the relation between science and religion in the Western World where science sprang into prominence a few centuries ago and where an atmosphere of intellectual and religious freedom is a part of daily life.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1979

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References

page 570 note 1 For further details and extensive bibliography see my Science and Creation: From Eternal Cycles to an Oscillating Universe (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press; New York: Science History Publications, 1974)Google Scholar, my Gifford Lectures given at the University of Edinburgh in 1974–5 and 1975–6 under the title, The Road of Science and the Ways to God (Chicago: University of Chicago Press; Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1978)Google Scholar and my Fremantle Lectures given at Balliol College, Oxford, in 1977, under the title, The Origin of Science and the Science of Its Origin (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press; South Bend. Ind.: Gateway Editions, 1978).Google Scholar