A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom, Vol. II (in Two Volumes)

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Cosimo, Inc., 1 janv. 2010 - 494 pages
The battle between science and religion in American popular life is as old as America itself. By the late 19th century, it had reached a fever pitch, culminating in the two-volume 1896 work A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom. The result of thirty years of research by historian and educator ANDREW DICKSON WHITE (1832-1918), a founder of Cornell University, this is White's attack on intellectually stifling religious dogma and his explication of the "conflict thesis" of outright warfare between science and religion. While scholars today generally see the situation as more nuanced, the conflict thesis remains a popular metaphor in the mind of the general public, and White's work continues to speak to us today. H.L. Mencken called this "one of the noblest monuments of American scholarship," and it will fascinate anyone who is troubled by the ongoing influence by religious authorities into secular science. In Volume II, White looks at the shift "from miracles to medicine," "from demonic possession to insanity," and other modern transformations of humanity's understanding of the world and ourselves.

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Alexander Geddes
326
The Continued Growth of Scientific Interpretation
333
Niebuhr and Arnold
340
Thirlwall and Grote
354
Victory of the Scientific and Literary Methods
370
Light thrown upon Hebrew religion by the translation of the sacred
377
82 83
384
Reconstructive Force of Scientific Criticism
388

Sanction given to the sacred theory of pestilence by Pope Gregory
71
New developments of fetichism The blood of St Januarius at Naples 7880
78
In France The great plague at Marseilles
87
The Relation of Sanitary Science to Religion
93
132
134
Beginnings of Helpful Scepticism
157
FROM BABEL TO COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY
168
The Sacred Theory of Language in its Second Form
179
Breaking down of the Theological View
189
Summary
204
Mediaval Growth of the Dead Sea Legends
221
Concurrent testimony of early and medieval writers Jewish and Christian
232
82
241
Theological Efforts at Compromise Triumph of the Scientific View
256
CHAPTER XIX
264
Retreat of the Church Protestant and Catholic
276
CHAPTER XX
288
Occult significance of numbers
294
Gregory the Great
300
Influence of the Reformation on the belief in the infallibility of the sacred
306
Le Clerc
320
Action of modern science in reconstruction of religious truth
395
326
397
333
403
94 95
413
140 141
414
192 193
420
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421
83 84
422
141 142
423
242 243
426
143 144
431
Bishop Wilberforces part in
441
The case at Morzine
446
The growth of exorcism
447
395 396
448
Theological Suggestions of Compromise Final Triumph of the Sci
454
The Beginnings of a Healthful Scepticism
456
193 194
459
Keble College and Lux Mundi
461
117 118
472
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