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Author | : David Hutchings |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2021-11-03 |
Genre | : RELIGION |
ISBN | : 0190053097 |
This is the story of John Draper, Andrew White, and the conflict thesis: a centuries-old misconception that religion and science are at odds with one another. Renowned scientist John William Draper (1811-1882) and celebrated historian-politician Andrew Dickson White (1832-1918) were certain that Enlightened Science and Dogmatic Christianity were mortal enemies--and they said as much to anyone who would listen. More than a century later, their grand and sweeping version of history dominates our landscape; Draper and White's conflict thesis is still found in countless textbooks, lecture series, movies, novels, and more. Yet, as it would later be discovered, they were mistaken. Their work has been torn to shreds by the experts, who have declared it totally at odds with reality. So how, if this is the case, does their wrongheaded narrative still live on? Who were these two men, and what, exactly, did they say? What is it about their God-versus-Science conflict thesis that convinced so many? And what--since both claimed to love Science and love Christ--were they actually trying to achieve in the first place? In this book, physicist David Hutchings and historian of science and religion James C. Ungureanu dissect the work of Draper and White. They take readers on a journey through time, diving into the formation and fallacy of the conflict thesis and its polarizing impact on society. The result is a tale of Flat Earths, of anesthetic, and of autopsies; of Creation and Evolution; of laser-eyed lizards and infinite worlds. It is a story of miracles and mathematicians; souls and Great Libraries; the Greeks, the scientific method, the Not-So-Dark-After-All Ages... and, of course, of popes and unicorns.
Author | : Judith Peacock |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2002-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780736813426 |
Discusses the series of events that lead to the secession of the southern states from the Union and to the start of the Civil War in 1861.
Author | : Noel B. Reynolds |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780802848536 |
This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. In this volume, several leading scholars harvest the best of Western thinking on religious liberty. An opening chapter shows how religious liberty emerged slowly in the West through centuries of cruel experience and growing enlightenment. Separate chapters thereafter take up the unique role of such titans as Marsilius, Luther, Calvin, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Burke, Tocqueville, and the American framers in the Western drama of religious liberty. From widely divergent experiences, these titans discovered the cardinal principles of religious liberty -- religious pluralism and toleration, religious equality and non- discrimination, liberty of conscience and association, freedom of expression and exercise. From widely discordant convictions, they distilled the most enduring models of church and state and of religion and law in the West -- from the organic models of earlier centuries to the dualistic models of more recent times. Contributors: Brian Tierney Steven Ozment John Witte Jr. Joshua Mitchell W. Cole Durham Jr. Michael W. McConnell Ellis Sandoz Thomas L. Pangle
Author | : Kirt Von Daacke |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0813933099 |
Argues that the inhabitants of Albemarle County (in rural Piedmont Virginia), white, black, and mixed-race treated each other more on the basis of a person's reputations than on the basis of state laws requiring restrictions on black freedom. Examples are drawn from law proceedings, (blacks did testify in courts despite its being against the law), marriages, residence, and other matters.
Author | : Edward Grant |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1996-10-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521567626 |
This 1997 book views the substantive achievements of the Middle Ages as they relate to early modern science.
Author | : Nathan Johnstone |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2018-06-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 3319894560 |
This book examines the misuse of history in New Atheism and militant anti-religion. It looks at how episodes such as the Witch-hunt, the Inquisition, and the Holocaust are mythologized to present religion as inescapably prone to violence and discrimination, whilst the darker side of atheist history, such as its involvement in Stalinism, is denied. At the same time, another constructed history—that of a perpetual and one-sided conflict between religion and science/rationalism—is commonly used by militant atheists to suggest the innate superiority of the non-religious mind. In a number of detailed case studies, the book traces how these myths have long been overturned by historians, and argues that the New Atheism’s cavalier use of history is indicative of a troubling approach to the humanities in general. Nathan Johnstone engages directly with the God debate at an academic level and contributes to the emerging study of non-religion as a culture and an identity.
Author | : Tom McLeish |
Publisher | : Lion Books |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2017-01-20 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0745968643 |
Why is it that science has consistently thrived wherever the Christian faith can be found? Why is it that so many great scientists - past and present - attribute their motivation and their discoveries, at least partially, to their Christian beliefs? Why are the age-old writings of the Bible so full of questions about natural phenomena? And, perhaps most importantly of all, why is all this virtually unknown to the general public? Too often, it would seem, science has been presented to the outside world as a robotic, detached, unemotional enterprise. Too often, Christianity is dismissed as being an ancient superstition. In reality, neither is the case. Science is a deeply human activity, and Christianity is deeply reasonable. Perhaps this is why, from ancient times right up to today, many individuals have been profoundly committed to both - and have helped us to understand more and more about the extraordinary world that we live in. As authors Tom McLeish and David Hutchings examine the story of science, and look at the part that Christianity has played, they uncover a powerful underlying reason for doing science in the first place. In example after example, ranging from 4000 BC to the present day, they show that thinking with a Christian worldview has been intimately involved with, and sometimes even directly responsible for, some of the biggest leaps forward ever made. Ultimately, they portray a biblical God who loves Science - and a Science that truly needs God.
Author | : David Allen White |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Catholic traditionalist movement |
ISBN | : 9781892331397 |
An appreciation of the life of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, founder of the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) for the safeguard of the Catholic priesthood and the holy sacrifice of the Mass. It is a literary mosaic rather than a chronological biography, in which Dr. White gives full rein to his judgments of the events in which the venerable Archbishop was a major player.
Author | : Robin R. Mallard |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 2008-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1434387372 |
The United States Army has served as protector of American Freedom since the beginning of the Revolutionary War. Black soldiers (USCT) have served in the army since the beginning of the Civil War. They were drafted and volunteered to serve in all black units that were commanded by white Officers. The Black Army Oficer, the Untold Story, from 1947 fo 1999. The desegregation Process began with the establishment of Seventeen Army ROTC Units at Historical 1890 Morrill Act Black colleges located in the Southern States. The training began with the fieshman students as early as 1943. Four years later, these graduates were Commissioned second Lieutenants in the Infantry. In 1948, President Harry S. Truman signed Executive Order 9981 that established policies to integrate the Armed Forces of the United States of America. The book documents this historic event and its impact on young black male college students who attended Prairie View A&M University and were commissioned Second Lieutenants from 1947-to-1 999. Information was gathered from the Prairie View A & M University Library Archives, Military Science Department records, 1890 College Representatives from Prairie View A&MU and University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. Eighteen autobiographies were collected and there were numerous interviews with class members. From 1947-1 999, 1,398 commissioned Second Lieutenants were catalogue. Six Generals were promoted from this group. Pictures of the first PVAM U President, first PMST and other historical pictures taken by the author are used to complement this work. Clyde McQueen is a World War II Veteran and 1950 graduate of Prairie View A&M College. He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the infantry fifty seven years ago and Veteran of the Korean War. He chose Prairie View A&M University for this study because of the access to data that told the story of the black army officer.
Author | : Christa J. Olson |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2013-11-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0271063637 |
In Constitutive Visions, Christa Olson presents the rhetorical history of republican Ecuador as punctuated by repeated arguments over national identity. Those arguments—as they advanced theories of citizenship, popular sovereignty, and republican modernity—struggled to reconcile the presence of Ecuador’s large indigenous population with the dominance of a white-mestizo minority. Even as indigenous people were excluded from civic life, images of them proliferated in speeches, periodicals, and artworks during Ecuador’s long process of nation formation. Tracing how that contradiction illuminates the textures of national-identity formation, Constitutive Visions places petitions from indigenous laborers alongside oil paintings, overlays woodblock illustrations with legislative debates, and analyzes Ecuador’s nineteen constitutions in light of landscape painting. Taken together, these juxtapositions make sense of the contradictions that sustained and unsettled the postcolonial nation-state.