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While the proper relation between Christianity and the sciences was the subject of an extensive literature during the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, the increasing status of disciplinary science in the nineteenth century brought renewed and intense scrutiny to the question. This series explores the developing debate. It includes important early works asserting the harmony of scientific and religious truths, such as Paley's Natural Theology and the Bridgewater Treatises (written by authors appointed by the President of the Royal Society to examine the 'power, wisdom, and goodness of God as manifested in the creation'), but also numerous later works reflecting the growing controversy and a distinctively Victorian conception of the 'warfare' between science and religion. The series includes a particularly interesting selection of works debating the implications of Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1959) for religious belief and human identity.

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2 results in Cambridge Library Collection - Science and Religion

The Religious Philosopher
  • Or, The Right Use of Contemplating the Works of the Creator
  • Volume 2
  • Bernard Nieuwentyt
  • Translated by John Chamberlayne
  • Preface by J. T. Desaguliers
  • Published online:
    05 June 2015
    Print publication:
    13 November 2014
    First published in:
    1718
  • Originally published in Dutch in 1715, this two-volume work by the philosopher and theologian Bernard Nieuwentyt (1654–1718) is reissued here in the 1724 third edition of the English translation by John Chamberlayne (1668/9–1723). The book seeks to persuade both Christians and atheists that scientific examination of the natural world is compatible with religious belief. According to Chamberlayne, Nieuwentyt published this illustrated work to 'magnify the Wisdom and Goodness of God' while challenging those who did not see proof of the divine in nature. The work is known to have influenced the natural theology of the English philosopher William Paley (1743–1805), whose famous analogy of the watchmaker is believed to have been taken directly from Nieuwentyt. Arguing against rationalist philosophers such as Spinoza, Volume 2 continues Nieuwentyt's series of 'contemplations', focusing on details about the cosmos and the laws of nature.

The Religious Philosopher
  • Or, The Right Use of Contemplating the Works of the Creator
  • Volume 1
  • Bernard Nieuwentyt
  • Translated by John Chamberlayne
  • Preface by J. T. Desaguliers
  • Published online:
    05 June 2015
    Print publication:
    13 November 2014
    First published in:
    1718
  • Originally published in Dutch in 1715, this two-volume work by the philosopher and theologian Bernard Nieuwentyt (1654–1718) is reissued here in the 1724 third edition of the English translation by John Chamberlayne (1668/9–1723). The book seeks to persuade both Christians and atheists that scientific examination of the natural world is compatible with religious belief. According to Chamberlayne, Nieuwentyt published this illustrated work to 'magnify the Wisdom and Goodness of God' while challenging those who did not see proof of the divine in nature. The work is known to have influenced the natural theology of the English philosopher William Paley (1743–1805), whose famous analogy of the watchmaker is believed to have been taken directly from Nieuwentyt. Arguing against rationalist philosophers such as Spinoza, Volume 1 defends natural theology and presents a series of detailed 'contemplations' about the complexity of the human body.