A history of the warfare of science with theology in Christendom

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A history of the warfare of science with theology in Christendom

Andrew Dickson White

Thoemmes Press, 1997

  • v. 1
  • v. 2

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Reprint. Originally publiched in New York : D. Appleton and company , 1897

Includes index

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内容説明

This study by Andrew Dickson White (1832-1918) concerns the progress of humankind under two duelling forces: theology and science. The text traces the evolution of human thought through a series of contrasts of ancient and modern theories of the world to show the impact of scientific research on the outmoded attitude of biblical literalism. Taking in a wide range of subjects - including geography, astronomy, geology, chemistry, physics, medicine, psychology and economics - White illustrates the victory of empiricism over superstition, of scientific method and "reason" over fundamentalism. White's aim was to show that the Church's attacks on scientific progress resulted in "the direst evils both to religion and to science" and, more broadly, his study points out the dangers inherent in the religious control of higher education (at a time when nearly all universities in the USA and Europe were still under ecclesiastical control). Cornell University was established on the principle that education should not be under the control of political parties or religious sects - an idea greeted at the time with hostile accusations of Darwinism and atheism. But White was in fact deeply religious and his hope was to strengthen and purify theology by eliminating its antiscientific concerns.

目次

  • Vol 1: From Creation to evolution
  • geography
  • astronomy
  • from "Signs and Wonders" to law in the heavens
  • from Genesis to geology
  • the antiquity of man, Egyptology, and Assyriology
  • the antiquity of man and prehistoric archaeology
  • the "Fall of Man" and anthropology
  • the "Fall of Man" and ethnology
  • the "Fall of Man" and history
  • from "The Prince of the Power of the Air" to meteorology
  • from magic to chemistry and physics. Vol 2: From miracles to medicine
  • from fetich to hygiene
  • from "Demoniacal Possession" to insanity
  • from diabolism to hysteria
  • from Babel to comparative philology
  • from the Dead Sea legends to comparative mythology
  • from Leviticus to political economy
  • from the Divine Oracles to the higher criticism.

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