History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science - The Classic Examination of the Ancient and Perpetual Collision (Paperback)

"As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw odium or inflict social ruin on any human being. She has never subjected anyone to mental torment, physical torture, least of all to death, for the purpose of upholding or promoting her ideas. She presents herself unstained by cruelties and crimes. But in the Vatican--we have only to recall the Inquisition--the hands that are now raised in appeals to the 'Most Merciful' are crimsoned. They have been steeped in blood "

Table of Contents

PREFACE.

CHAPTER I. The origin of science.

CHAPTER II. The origin of Christianity. -- Its transformation on attaining imperial power. -- Its relations to science.

CHAPTER III. Conflict respecting the doctrine of the unity of god. -- The first or southern reformation.

CHAPTER IV. The restoration of science in the south.

CHAPTER V. Conflict respecting the nature of the soul. -- Doctrine of emanation and absorption.

CHAPTER VI. Conflict respecting the nature of the world.

CHAPTER VII. Controversy respecting the age of the earth.

CHAPTER VIII. Conflict respecting the criterion of truth.

CHAPTER IX. Controversy respecting the government of the universe.

CHAPTER X. Latin Christianity in relation to modern civilization.

CHAPTER XI. Science in relation to modern civilization.

CHAPTER XII. The impending crisis. Indications of the approach of a religious crisis. -- The predominating Christian Church, the Roman, perceives this, and makes preparation for it. -- Pius IX convokes an Oecumenical Council -- Relations of the different European governments to the papacy. -- Relations of the Church to Science, as indicated by the Encyclical Letter and the Syllabus. "Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none."