Reconciling Science and Religion

Illustrations
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
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
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