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Events in Christian Europe, such as the Galileo affair, that were associated with the Scientific Revolution and the Age of Enlightenment led scholars such as John William Draper to postulate a conflict thesis, holding that religion and science have been in conflict methodologically, factually and politically throughout history.
John Hughes (editor) – American journalist, former editor of The Christian Science Monitor and The Deseret News [146] Edward J. Meeman (1889-1966) – American journalist [ 147 ] Cora Rigby (1865-1930) – first woman at a major paper to head a Washington news bureau, co-founder of the Women's National Press Club.
Sikorsky was a deeply religious Russian Orthodox Christian [154] and authored two religious and philosophical books (The Message of the Lord's Prayer and The Invisible Encounter). Neil Kensington Adam (1891–1973): British chemist who wrote the article A CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST'S APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF NATURAL SCIENCE. [155] [156]
During this period, the Church was also a major patron of engineering for the construction of elaborate cathedrals. Since the Renaissance, Catholic scientists have been credited as fathers of a diverse range of scientific fields: Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) pioneered heliocentrism, René Descartes (1596-1650) father of analytical geometry and co-founder of modern philosophy, Jean-Baptiste ...
Adherents are commonly known as Christian Scientists or students of Christian Science, and the church is sometimes informally known as the Christian Science church. It was founded in 1879 in New England by Mary Baker Eddy , who wrote the 1875 book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures , which outlined the theology of Christian Science.
Even though the ancient and medieval worlds did not have conceptions resembling the modern understandings of "science" or of "religion", [1] certain elements of modern ideas on the subject recur throughout history. The pair-structured phrases "religion and science" and "science and religion" first emerged in the literature during the 19th century.
The prolific mid-third-century Christian theologian Origen, whose critical editions of the Hebrew Bible and theory of biblical interpretation have been foundational for Christian theology, could ...
Christian Science went on to become the fastest-growing American religion in the early 20th century. The federal religious census recorded 85,717 Christian Scientists in 1906; 30 years later it was 268,915. [222] In 1890 there were seven Christian Science churches in the United States, a figure that had risen to 1,104 by 1910. [178]