HOW THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE CHANGED RELIGION AT NINETEENTH-CENTURY HARVARD

Author: Nartonis, David K.¹

Source: Zygon, Volume 43, Number 3, September 2008 , pp. 639-650(12)

Abstract:

Nineteenth-century Harvard faculty and students looked to philosophical ideas about the proper and effective study of nature as the model of rationality to which their religion must conform. As these ideas changed, notions of rationality changed and so did Harvard religion.

Keywords: nineteenth-century Harvard; philosophy of science rational religion

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2008.00945.x

Affiliations: 1: Independent scholar. His mailing address is 1200 Washington Street #218, Boston, MA 02118.

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