What Biology Has Contributed to Religion
We always think in terms of our education. Sometimes education comes from our daily work without special schooling; sometimes it comes from highly developed training in universities. Speaking generally, our theologies have been built up by university men. In the course of time these theologies have...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Chicago Press
1913
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The biblical world
Year: 1913, Volume: 41, Issue: 4, Pages: 219-223 |
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| Summary: | We always think in terms of our education. Sometimes education comes from our daily work without special schooling; sometimes it comes from highly developed training in universities. Speaking generally, our theologies have been built up by university men. In the course of time these theologies have moved out over an entire society and thus people come to think religiously in terms of the best thought in the educational world. Until very recent years the great interests of the world outside of religion have been war, commerce, and metaphysics. Naturally the material of theology was drawn from these sources. But within the last two or three generations the scientific spirit has been overwhelmingly developed. Unfortunately very few of our theological writers have had any thoroughgoing scientific training. For that reason they have failed to get help for their theology from the various sciences which are really at their disposal. Henry Drummond is one of the outstanding exceptions to this general condition. This article by Professor Coulter is one of a general group which will appear at intervals during the next few months, setting forth the contribution of science to religious thought. It is hoped that they will enable our readers to grasp the theological possibilities of scientific conceptions, and they will serve to help the positive movement toward a more vital theology. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: The biblical world
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1086/474754 |