The Relations between Religion and Science
Eight Lectures Preached before the University of Oxford in the Year 1884 on the Foundation of the Late Rev. John Bampton, M.A.

Frederick Temple, Victorian bishop and educational reformer, argues that scientific and religious beliefs are complementary, not opposed.

Frederick Temple (Author)

9781108000277, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 July 2009

272 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.6 cm, 0.35 kg

In 1884 the long-running annual series of Bampton Lectures at the University of Oxford was given by Frederick Temple, at that time Bishop of Exeter. He had earlier been a prominent educational reformer, headmaster at Rugby School and chaplain to Queen Victoria, and he later rose to become Archbishop of Canterbury. This book contains his Bampton Lectures on The Relations between Religion and Science - perhaps the most passionately debated topic of that time. He discusses the apparent conflict between scientific and religious beliefs on various topics including free will, knowledge, evolution, and supernatural power, but concludes that science and religion are not foes, but counterparts, and that neither is complete without the other. His contribution in this area is of lasting importance in the history and philosophy of science.

1. The origin and nature of scientific belief
2. The origin and nature of religious belief
3. Apparent conflict between science and religion on free-will
4. Apparent conflict between religion and the doctrine of evolution
5. Revelation: the means of developing and completing spiritual knowledge
6. Apparent collision between religion and the doctrine of evolution
7. Apparent collision of science with the claim to supernatural power
8. The conclusion of the argument.

Subject Areas: History of ideas [JFCX]