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Christianity and the sciences have fallen on hard times in the last century and a quarter or so. Gone are the days when Henry Drummond openly celebrated the theory of evolution as the Theistic alternative to Spontaneous generation, or Cotton Mather rejoiced in Isaac Newton as the great expounder of God\u2019s governance of the universe.<\/p>\n

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And yet, Christians\u00a0are\u00a0<\/em>still obligated to explore and participate in the sciences. That such has fallen on hard times is no excuse. To help us do that, Gray Sutanto, James Eglinton, and Cory Borck have released Herman Bavinck\u2019s\u00a0Christianity & Science<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Despite weighing in at just over two hundred pages,\u00a0Christianity & Science\u00a0<\/em>manages to pack in:<\/p>\n

\nwhat \u201cscience\u201d means for a Christian<\/li>\nwhat \u201cscience\u201d is overall<\/li>\nthe place of science in society<\/li>\nthe place of science in the university<\/li>\nthe difference between \u201cnatural science\u201d, theology, and the humanities<\/li>\nthe place of revelation in science<\/li>\nthe essential value of Christianity for science<\/li>\nthe need for a Christian university (that studies science)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n*
** *And that\u2019s not even a complete list! Along the way, Bavinck makes the case for studying science:<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhoever is serious about religion cannot limit revelation to a mystical working of the infinite in the human inner life. The human being is not isolate in the world. He is bound to his environment with every fiber of his being. Like someone who is hungry but will take no food from outside himself and thus starves to death, so is the religious man who isolates himself from the world and must live off his own inner affections, impoverished.\u201d (168-169)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n*
** If we do not want to be thus impoverished, we must embrace the study of science as a way of understanding what God has taught about Himself through the natural world.<\/p>\n
** *While dense in places (because: Bavinck), this excellent little volume is absolutely worth having on your shelf as a starting place for reflection on the connection between theology and science.<\/p>\n

Dr. Coyle Neal is co-host of the\u00a0City of Man Podcast<\/a>\u00a0an Amazon Associate (which is linked in this blog), and an Associate Profess<\/em>or of Political Science at\u00a0Southwest Baptist University<\/a>\u00a0in Bolivar, MO<\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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