Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- CHAPTER I THE ORIGIN OF SCIENCE
- CHAPTER II THE ORIGIN OF CHRISTIANITY.—ITS TRANSFORMATION ON ATTAINING IMPERIAL POWER.—ITS RELATIONS TO SCIENCE
- CHAPTER III CONFLICT RESPECTING THE DOCTRINE OF THE UNITY OF GOD.—THE FIRST OR SOUTHERN REFORMATION
- CHAPTER IV THE RESTORATION OF SCIENCE IN THE SOUTH
- CHAPTER V CONFLICT RESPECTING THE NATURE OF THE SOUL.—DOCTRINE OF EMANATION AND ABSORPTION
- CHAPTER VI CONFLICT RESPECTING THE NATURE OF THE WORLD
- CHAPTER VII CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE AGE OF THE EARTH
- CHAPTER VIII CONFLICT RESPECTING THE CRITERION OF TRUTH
- CHAPTER IX CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNIVERSE
- CHAPTER X LATIN CHRISTIANITY IN RELATION TO MODERN CIVILIZATION
- CHAPTER XI SCIENCE IN RELATION TO MODERN CIVILIZATION
- CHAPTER XII THE IMPENDING CRISIS
- INDEX
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- CHAPTER I THE ORIGIN OF SCIENCE
- CHAPTER II THE ORIGIN OF CHRISTIANITY.—ITS TRANSFORMATION ON ATTAINING IMPERIAL POWER.—ITS RELATIONS TO SCIENCE
- CHAPTER III CONFLICT RESPECTING THE DOCTRINE OF THE UNITY OF GOD.—THE FIRST OR SOUTHERN REFORMATION
- CHAPTER IV THE RESTORATION OF SCIENCE IN THE SOUTH
- CHAPTER V CONFLICT RESPECTING THE NATURE OF THE SOUL.—DOCTRINE OF EMANATION AND ABSORPTION
- CHAPTER VI CONFLICT RESPECTING THE NATURE OF THE WORLD
- CHAPTER VII CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE AGE OF THE EARTH
- CHAPTER VIII CONFLICT RESPECTING THE CRITERION OF TRUTH
- CHAPTER IX CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNIVERSE
- CHAPTER X LATIN CHRISTIANITY IN RELATION TO MODERN CIVILIZATION
- CHAPTER XI SCIENCE IN RELATION TO MODERN CIVILIZATION
- CHAPTER XII THE IMPENDING CRISIS
- INDEX
Summary
Whoever has had an opportunity of becoming acquainted with the mental condition of the intelligent classes in Europe and America, must have perceived that there is a great and rapidly-increasing departure from the public religious faith, and that, while among the more frank this divergence is not concealed, there is a far more extensive and far more dangerous secession, private and unacknowledged.
So wide-spread and so powerful is this secession, that it can neither be treated with contempt nor with punishment. It cannot be extinguished by derision, by vituperation, or by force. The time is rapidly approaching when it will give rise to serious political results.
Ecclesiastical spirit no longer inspires the policy of the world. Military fervor in behalf of faith has disappeared. Its only souvenirs are the marble effigies of crusading knights, reposing in the silent crypts of churches on their tombs.
That a crisis is impending is shown by the attitude of the great powers toward the papacy. The papacy represents the ideas and aspirations of two-thirds of the population of Europe. It insists on a political supremacy in accordance with its claims to a divine origin and mission, and a restoration of the mediæval order of things, loudly declaring that it will accept no reconciliation with modern civilization.
The antagonism we thus witness between Religion and Science is the continuation of a struggle that commenced when Christianity began to attain political power.
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- History of the Conflict between Religion and Science , pp. v - xviPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009First published in: 1875