Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition
Retracing the Origins of Conflict
Format: Paperback
Pages: 309
ISBN: 9780822967415
Pub Date: 30 Sep 2024
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Description:
The story of the “conflict thesis” between science and religion—the notion of perennial conflict or warfare between the two—is part of our modern self-understanding. As the story goes, John William Draper (1811–1882) and Andrew Dickson White (1832–1918) constructed dramatic narratives in the nineteenth century that cast religion as the relentless enemy of scientific progress. And yet, despite its resilience in popular culture, historians today have largely debunked the conflict thesis.