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Nature Lost?

Natural Science and the German Theological Traditions of the Nineteenth Century

by Frederic Gregory

  • Hardback
  • 352 pages
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • 16.1 x 23.7 x 3.3 cm

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Unlike their British and American counterparts, 19th-century German theologians paid little attention to natural science, and especially eschewed philosophically popular yet naive versions of natural theology. Frederick Gregory shows that the loss of nature from theological discourse is only one reflection of the larger cultural change that marks the transition of European society from a 19th-century to a 20th-century mentality. In examining this "loss of nature", Gregory refers to a larger shift in epistemological foundations - a shift felt in many fields ranging from art to philosophy to history to, of course, theology. Yet although nature was lost to Germany's "premier" theologians, the author shows it was not lost to the majority of 19th-century laypeople nor to the various theologians who spoke for them.Like their 20th-century counterparts 19th-century creationists insisted on keeping nature at the heart of their systems; liberals welcomed natural knowledge with the conviction that there would be no contradiction if one really understood science or if one really understood religion; and pantheistic naturalists confidently discovered a religious vision in the wonder of the Darwinian universe. Gregory suggests that modern theologians who stand in the shadow of the loss of nature from theology are challenged to devise a way to recapture what others did not abandon. In this study of natural science and religion in 19th-century German-speaking Europe, Gregory examines an important but largely neglected topic that will interest historians of theology, historians of philosophy, cultural and intellectual historians of the German-speaking world, and historians of science.
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  • Author

    Frederic Gregory

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Harvard University Press

  • Published

    March 1992

  • Weight

    604g

  • Page Count

    352

  • Dimensions

    16.1 x 23.7 x 3.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780674604834

  • ISBN-10

    0674604830

  • Eden Code

    1192756

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