Articles
Christians in Science: Looking Back – and Forward
MALCOLM JEEVES
R.J. (SAM) BERRY
Pages: 125-152
Abstract
Christians in Science had its origins in 1944 in a small gathering of mainly postgraduate students in Cambridge. This group became the nucleus of the Research Scientists’ Christian Fellowship (which changed its name in 1988 to Christians in Science). The RSCF was originally a graduate section of the Inter-Varsity Fellowship (now the Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship), but is now an independent charity and limited company, albeit still retaining close links with UCCF. We review the seventy year history of CiS and its contributions to the maturing discussions in the faith-science area; we see a positive and developing role for the organisation.
Georges Lemaître’s 1936 Lecture on Science and Faith
Pablo de Felipe
Pierre Bourdon
Eduardo Riaza
Pages: 154-179
Abstract
Georges Lemaître, a Mathematical physicist and a Catholic priest, is generally recognised as the key founding father of modern Big Bang cosmology. In recent years, his contribution to our modern scientific cosmological model has been increasingly recognised. However, his contribution to the science and faith field is still not very well known, especially in English. One of the reasons is that his views are dispersed in lectures that for the most part remain in French and have not been reprinted for many years. Here we present, for the first time, as far as we are aware, a full English translation of one of the key texts on science and faith from Lemaître: a 1936 lecture delivered at Malines (Belgium). All the crucial ideas in Lemaître’s view of science and faith relations appear here. These ideas were present in his early work and continued to appear in his lectures throughout the rest of his life. They are expressed in this lecture in some detail and with a strong literary force that gives them, in some cases, the character of aphorisms.
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A Grammar of Descent: John Henry Newman and the Compatibility of Evolution with Christian Doctrine
JONATHAN W. CHAPPELL
Pages: 180-206
Abstract
It is widely assumed that the nineteenth century was an age dominated by unbelief. According to this view, developments in the natural sciences, such as Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, combined with the rise of historical-critical biblical scholarship, drove many Victorians away from traditional Christian belief towards scepticism. However, while it is certainly true that many nineteenth-century thinkers came to regard orthodox religious belief as incompatible with modern science, the eminent English Roman Catholic theologian John Henry Newman (1801–90) is an outstanding example of a nineteenth-century thinker who believed that there need be no necessary contradiction between the data of Christian revelation and the scientific advances of his day. This paper explores Newman’s ideas concerning evolution, and, by focusing on his engagements with some key Victorian contemporaries, shows that, for Newman, evolutionary theory was compatible with Christian doctrine.
Correspondence
Disability and the resurrection body
JOHN HASTINGS
Pages: 207-208
A response to John Hastings
TIMOTHY WALL
Pages: 208-209
Book reviews
After the Monkey Trial: Evangelical Scientists and a New Creationism
Christopher M Rios
(Keith Fox)
Pages: 210-211
God, Humanity and the Cosmos – Third Edition: A Textbook in Science and Religion
Christopher Southgate (ed.)
(Meric Srokosz)
Pages: 211-212
The Unknown God: Responses to the New Atheists
John Hughes (ed.)
(James Orr)
Pages: 212-214
The Nature of Creation: Examining the Bible and Science
Mark Harris
(Hilary Marlow)
Pages: 214-215
C.S. Lewis vs the New Atheists
Peter S.Williams
(Paul Wraight)
Pages: 215-216
God in the Lab: How Science Enhances Faith
Ruth M. Bancewicz
(Andrew Bowie)
Pages: 216-218
Faith and Wisdom in Science
Tom McLeish
(Tim Middleton)
Pages: 218-219
We Are Our Brains – From the Womb to Alzheimer’s
Dick Swaab
Jane Hedley-Prole transl.
(Denis Alexander)
Pages: 219-221
The Wisdom of the Liminal: Evolution and Other Animals in Human Becoming
Celia Deane-Drummond
(Bethany Sollereder)
Pages: 221-223
God’s Planet
Owen Gingerich
(Eric Priest)
Pages: 223-225
Great Astronomers in European History
Paul Marston
(Allan Chapman)
Pages: 225-226
The World is Not Six Thousand Years Old – So What?
Antoine Bret
(Peter Lynch)
Pages: 226-227
Religion and the Sciences of Origins: Historical and Contemporary Discussions
Kelly James Clark
(Stephen Thompson)
Pages: 227-229