Brooke John Hedley,2014-Science-and-Religion-Some-Historical-Perspectives

Acknowledgments page ix

Introduction 1

i Interaction between Science and Religion:Some Preliminary Considerations 22

ii Science and Religion in the ScientificRevolution 69

iii The Parallel between Scientific andReligious Reform 110

iv Divine Activity in a Mechanical Universe 158

v Science and Religion in the Enlightenment 206

vi The Fortunes and Functions of Natural Theology 261

vii Visions of the Past: Religious Belief and theHistorical Sciences 307

viii Evolutionary Theory and Religious Belief 374

Postscript: Science and Religion in the Twentieth Century 438

Bibliographic Essay 475

Sources of Quotations 543

Index 548