Just kidding - of course.
John Zimmer has has some interesting posts up recently about science, scientists, and his own vocational calling (which is very good). He also has this interesting post relating Jacques Barzun's thoughts on connecting the Council of Trent to the later coming "Warfare Between Science and Religion." What I found particularly interesting about the post was the invocation of Trent and not the Protestant side of the Reformation when discussing the subsequent impoverishment of our ways of reading Scripture. I wonder why Barzun highlighted the Catholic response more than the Protestant events in this process? What continues to amaze me about the "Warfare" thesis is how the initial "warfare" was declared by those hostile to religion and in little more than 50 years the table's had so turned that it was religion on the defensive. The trip from John William Draper to John T. Scopes is a fascinating one.
Barzun (and I take it John) is right about the impoverished way that we read Scripture today. We tend to read everything as a philosophical or theological text (essentially, like an academic essay) with insufficient regard for the way it was written and the way it has been interpreted over the centuries by the Christian church. I certainly am guilty of this.
If you are interested in issues relating science and the Christian faith, Prosthesis is also a great and thoughtful read.
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