Stuart Mathieson
Broschiertes Buch

Evangelicals and the Philosophy of Science

The Victoria Institute, 1865-1939

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This book investigates the debates around religion and science at the influential Victoria Institute. Founded in London in 1865, and largely drawn from the evangelical wing of the Church of England, it had as its prime objective the defence of 'the great truths revealed in Holy Scripture' from 'the opposition of science, falsely so called'. The conflict for them was not between science and religion directly, but what exactly constituted true science.Chapters cover the Victoria Institute's formation, its heyday in the late nineteenth century, and its decline in the years following the First Wor...