This first volume of the 1951–2 Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion and Christian Theology was published in 1953 and followed shortly thereafter by the second volume, Experience and Interpretation. In this volume, Canon Raven presents a rewriting of the history of science in organic and holistic categories, as opposed to the conventional mechanism and determinism.
Contents
Preface; 1. Introductory: religion and nature; 2. The Biblical attitude towards Nature; 3. Nature in the early Church; 4. St Albert and the Middle Ages; 5. Gesner and the Age of Transition; 6. Cudworth and the Age of Genius; 7. Newton and the Age of the Machine; 8. Linnaeus and the coming of system; 9. Darwin and the century of conflict; 10. The new situation; Notes; Index.
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