This paper addresses the relationship between geology and religion in Portugal by focusing
on three case studies of naturalists who produced original research and lived in different …

This paper addresses the relationship between geology and religion in Portugal by focusing
on three case studies of naturalists who produced original research and lived in different …

Considerar que o exercício da atividade científica é coisa dissociada da vida religiosa já se
transformou num lugar-comum. Difícil imaginar um padre num laboratório ou num …

258 assumption, according to which a new and unique form of secular, rational, objective
and neutral knowledge arose more or less spontaneously in some corner of western Europe …

Today we hear renewed calls for a dialogue between science and religion: why has the old
question of the relations between science and religion now returned to the public domain …

Historians of science and religion usually trace the origins of the “conflict thesis,” the notion
that science and religion have been in perennial “conflict” or “warfare,” to the late nineteenth …

The paper considers issues arising when historians of different theological persuasions
write about geologists whose religious principles influenced their geological work. For …

Galileo. Newton. Darwin. These giants are remembered for their great contributions to
science. Often forgotten, however, is the profound influence that Christianity had on their …

The historiographic tradition of the history of science that originated with Auguste Comte
bears all the marks of narratives with roots in the Enlightenment, such as a view of religion …

Since the rise of modern science in the 17th century, its social perceptions have been
mediated by two related but distinct images. On the one hand, science has emerged as a …