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35 - The Bible and science

from Part V - Thematic Overview: Reception and Use of the Bible, 1750–2000

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 June 2015

By
Nicolaas A. Rupke
Edited by
John Riches
John Riches
Affiliation:
University of Glasgow
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Summary

The historiographical models canvassed to give structure to the relationship between Bible and science have tended to reflect the partisanship of their propounders. This chapter explores the history of the relationship between the Bible and science as a story of multiple discourses. The multiple-discourses approach avoids painting an oversimplified picture of the relationship between Bible and science, which relationship, cannot be resolved into two polar opposites of cognition, the one is religious conviction and the other is theology. Lilienthal contributed to a discourse that took the Bible and, in particular, its historical portions in a literal sense. The Old and New Testaments alike are divinely inspired and therefore inerrant. Most important to the literalist discourse have been creation, the flood and the age of the world as calculated on the basis of the genealogies of the ante and post-diluvial patriarchs.

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African religionsChristian-Muslim dialogueChristian-Jewish dialogueBibleinterfaith dialogueHindu-Christian dialogue
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The New Cambridge History of the Bible , pp. 707 - 724
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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