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The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion
Most things you ‘know’ about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain widespread today.
The true history of science and religion is a human one. It’s about the role of religion in inspiring, and strangling, science before the scientific revolution. It’s about the sincere but eccentric faith and the quiet, creeping doubts of the most brilliant scientists in history – Galileo, Newton, Faraday, Darwin, Maxwell, Einstein. Above all it’s about the question of what it means to be human and who gets to say – a question that is more urgent in the twenty-first century than ever before.
From eighth-century Baghdad to the frontiers of AI today, via medieval Europe, nineteenth-century India and Soviet Russia, Magisteria sheds new light on this complex historical landscape. Rejecting the thesis that science and religion are inevitably at war, Nicholas Spencer illuminates a compelling and troubled relationship that has definitively shaped human history.
Nicholas Spencer is Senior Fellow at Theos, a Fellow of International Society for Science and Religion and a Visiting Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of a number of books including Darwin and God, The Evolution of the West and Atheists. He has presented a BBC Radio 4 series on The Secret History of Science and Religion, and has written for the Guardian, Telegraph, Independent, New Statesman, Prospect and more.
This event will take place in the Cathedral library with the doors opening at 6.15pm. Copies of Magesteria: The Entangled Histories of Science and Religion will be available to purchase on the evening.
This event is in-person only and will not be recorded or streamed.
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2024-03-07 2024-03-07 Europe/London Magisteria - A Talk by Nicholas Spencer Rejecting the thesis that science and religion are inevitably at war, Nicholas Spencer illuminates a compelling and troubled relationship that has definitively shaped human history. https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/calendar/2024/03/07/magisteria-a-talk-by-nicholas-spencer-365742 Southwark Cathedral,Southwark Cathedral,,LondonLocation
Southwark Cathedral,
London,
SE1 9DA
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