Christian Theology And Natural Science: Some Questions In Their Relations
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At the intersection of faith and empirical inquiry stands one of the twentieth century's most rigorous theological minds — Christian Theology and Natural Science: Some Questions in Their Relations by E. L. Mascall presents the celebrated Bampton Lectures of 1956, a work that boldly confronts the perceived conflict between Christian doctrine and modern scientific discovery. Mascall, a Student of Christ Church, Oxford, and University Lecturer in the Philosophy of Religion, argues with intellectual precision that theology and science are not adversaries but complementary disciplines, each illuminating aspects of reality that the other cannot reach alone. He chronicles the historical tensions and surprising convergences between these two great traditions, addressing questions of cosmology, evolution, and the nature of the human person with both scholarly rigour and pastoral clarity. Mascall's prose is measured and authoritative, reflecting a mind equally at home in Thomistic metaphysics and contemporary physics, making this volume an essential text for anyone seeking a serious philosophical engagement with the science-faith dialogue. His work stands as a landmark in Anglican theological thought, drawing on a vast tradition of natural theology while remaining acutely attentive to the challenges posed by twentieth-century science. For the reader willing to question easy assumptions on both sides of the debate, Mascall's penetrating analysis raises questions that science alone may never fully answer.
Author: E. L. Mascall
Format: Hardback
Published: 1957, Longmans, Green and Co
Genre: Religion
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: FEP missing
At the intersection of faith and empirical inquiry stands one of the twentieth century's most rigorous theological minds — Christian Theology and Natural Science: Some Questions in Their Relations by E. L. Mascall presents the celebrated Bampton Lectures of 1956, a work that boldly confronts the perceived conflict between Christian doctrine and modern scientific discovery. Mascall, a Student of Christ Church, Oxford, and University Lecturer in the Philosophy of Religion, argues with intellectual precision that theology and science are not adversaries but complementary disciplines, each illuminating aspects of reality that the other cannot reach alone. He chronicles the historical tensions and surprising convergences between these two great traditions, addressing questions of cosmology, evolution, and the nature of the human person with both scholarly rigour and pastoral clarity. Mascall's prose is measured and authoritative, reflecting a mind equally at home in Thomistic metaphysics and contemporary physics, making this volume an essential text for anyone seeking a serious philosophical engagement with the science-faith dialogue. His work stands as a landmark in Anglican theological thought, drawing on a vast tradition of natural theology while remaining acutely attentive to the challenges posed by twentieth-century science. For the reader willing to question easy assumptions on both sides of the debate, Mascall's penetrating analysis raises questions that science alone may never fully answer.