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Past, Present, and Future

In this concluding lecture, we survey what we have seen and learned in this course and endeavor to place our own times in historical context. Notably, we conclude that no single blanket description is satisfactory for describing the complexity of science/religion interactions in Christianity over time. The productive engagements between science and theology should be duly stressed. Much of the current-day clashes occur between extremists - religious and scientistic fundamentalists. This lecture proposes that the historical perspective is the best way to transcend and defuse such clashes. The extremist groups ignore historical background (theological and scientific) in favor of self-promoting mythologies, trivialize or fail to understand complex philosophical issues worked out in the past, and are not representative of the totality of science or of Christianity. Historical sense allows us to lift the potentially valuable discourse about and between science and religion to higher, more intellectual, and productive levels.

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  • Runtime 31 minutes
  • Studio The Great Courses
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