Author: William GrahamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion and science
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The Creed of Science
Author: William GrahamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion and science
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The Creed of Science. Religious, Moral, and Social
Author: William GrahamPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385430593
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
The 'Creed of Science' in Victorian England
Author: Roy M. MacLeodPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040234240
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
The nineteenth century, which saw the triumph of the idea of progress and improvement, saw also the triumph of science as a political and cultural force. In England, as science and its methods claimed privilege and space, its language acquired the vocabulary of religion. The new ’creed’ of science embraced what John Tyndall called the ’scientific movement’; it was, in the language of T.H. Huxley, a militant creed. The ’march’ of invention, the discoveries of chemistry, and the wonders of steam and electricity culminated in a crusade against ignorance and unbelief. It was a creed that looked to its own apostolic succession from Copernicus, Galileo and the martyrs of the ’scientific revolution’. Yet, it was a creed whose doctrines were divisive, and whose convictions resisted. Alongside arguments for materialism, utility, positivism, and evolutionary naturalism, persisted reservations about the nature of man, the role of ethics, and the limits of scientific method. These essays discuss leading strategists in the scientific movement of late-Victorian England. At the same time, they show how ’science established’ served not only the scientific community, but also the interests of imperial and colonial powers.
The British Quarterly Review
Author: The Christian Socialist
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Socialism, Christian
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Science and Religion United
Author: Ulrich A. K. BetzPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031550943
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Charles Darwin and the Church of Wordsworth
Author: Robert M. RyanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191074667
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Charles Darwin and the Church of William Wordsworth is a study of the cultural connections between two of the nineteenth century's most influential figures, Charles Darwin and William Wordsworth. When Darwin presented On the Origin of Species, his reading public's affective response to the natural world had already been profoundly influenced by William Wordsworth. Wordsworth presented nature as benign, harmonious, a source of moral inspiration and spiritual blessing, and a medium through which one might enter into communion with the Divine. Long after his death, he continued to be revered throughout the English-speaking world, not only as a great poet, but as a theologian with a broader following than any prelate and an appeal that transcended or ignored sectarian differences. For believers and sceptics alike, Wordsworth's poetry offered a readily accessible and intellectually respectable counterweight to Darwin's vision of a material universe evolving by fixed laws in which Divinity played no discernible role and where concepts like beauty and harmony were material conditions to be explained in scientific terms. Wordsworth's theology of nature became for many readers a more effective counterforce to Darwin's ideas than Biblical orthodoxy, but it also provided an enriching context for the reception of evolutionary theory, aiding theists in their effort to reach an accommodation with the new science. As the nineteenth century's two most prominent theoreticians of nature's life, Wordsworth and Darwin competed for attention among those seeking to understand humanity's relationship with the natural world, and their disciples engaged in a productive, mutually transformative dialogue in which the poet's cultural authority influenced the way Darwin was received, and Darwinian science adjusted interpretation and evaluation of the poetry. Charles Darwin and the Church of William Wordsworth explores the broad cultural relationship between Wordsworth, Darwin, and their disciples, contextualising them within wider discussions about the relationship between religion and science in the nineteenth century.
The Religion of Consciousness
Author: Francis Reginald StathamPublisher:
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Category : Consciousness
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
The Best Books
Author: William Swan SonnenscheinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
The Organisation of Knowledge in Victorian Britain
Author: Martin DauntonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780197263266
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
This collection of essays explores the questions of what counted as knowledge in Victorian Britain, who defined knowledge and the knowledgeable, by what means and by what criteria. During the Victorian period, the structure of knowledge took on a new and recognizably modern form, and the disciplines we now take for granted took shape. The ways in which knowledge was tested also took on a new form, with the rise of written examinations. New institutions of knowledge were created: museums were important at the start of the period, universities had become prominent by the end. Victorians needed to make sense of the sheer scale of new information, to popularize it, and at the same time to exclude ignorance and error - a role carried out by encyclopaedias and popular publications. By studying the Victorian organization of knowledge in its institutional, social, and intellectual settings, these essays contribute to our wider consideration of the complex and much debated concept of knowledge.