Concept
Ian Barbour
Overview
Ian Graeme Barbour (October 5, 1923 – December 24, 2013) was an American scholar on the relationship between science and religion. According to the Public Broadcasting Service, his mid-1960s Issues in Science and Religion "has been credited with literally creating the contemporary field of science and religion."
In the citation nominating Barbour for the 1999 Templeton Prize, John B. Cobb wrote, "No contemporary has made a more original, deep and lasting contribution toward the needed integration of scientific and religious knowledge and values than Ian Barbour. With respect to the breadth of topics and fields brought into this integration, Barbour has no equal."
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Nor is it thus only that true science is essentially religious. It is religious, too, inasmuch as it generates a profound respect for, and an implicit faith in, those uniformities of action which all things disclose. By accumulated experiences the man of science acquires a thorough belief in the unchanging relations of phenomena--in the invariable connection of cause and consequence--in the necessity of good or evil…
Herbert Spencer, Essays on education and kindred subjects
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These forces were the authority of reason and science. In _The Christian Philosopher_,[i-29] basing his attitude on the works of Ray, Derham, Cheyne, and Grew,[i-30] Mather attempted to shatter the Calvinists' antithesis between science and theology, asserting "that [Natural] Philosophy is no Enemy, but a mighty and wondrous Incentive to Religion."[i-31] He warned that since even Mahomet with the aid of reason found…
Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklin
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Throughout the nineteenth century, the influence of the science was its influence on dynamics and physics, and thence derivatively on engineering and chemistry. It is difficult to overrate its indirect influence on human life through the medium of these sciences. But there was no direct influence of mathematics upon the general thought of the age.
Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the modern world
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Philosophers who discussed Ian Barbour
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- John B. Cobb
- Religious naturalism
- Emeritus
- Beijing
- Doctor of Philosophy
- University of Aberdeen
- Physics
- Process theology
- Presbyterianism
- Social science
- PBS
- University of Chicago
- World War II
- Yale University
- Religious studies
- Natural science
- Science and technology studies
- John Polkinghorne
- Templeton Prize
- Minneapolis
- Conscientious objector
Place in the tradition
Part of Idealism.