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THE book, Canon Streeter tells us, arose out of a series of informal conferences at which the relations between science and religion were discussed, mainly by the “scientists and philosophers of the post-War generation in Oxford.” The essays have, therefore, somewhat of a common viewpoint, and it is a novel and stimulating one. The title is intriguing. We do not as a rule associate the idea of adventure with religion, or very often with science, and books about their relation are apt to be dull and platitudinous. The present volume does escape that reproach, and does treat the question from a new viewpoint. Dr. A. S. Russell, who writes the first paper, on “The Dynamic of Science,” has little difficulty in showing that the spirit of adventure is active in science at the present day, particularly in the physical sciences.
Adventure: the Faith of Science and the Science of Faith.
By the Rev. Canon Burnett H. Streeter Catherine M. Chilcott John MacMurray Dr. Alexander S. Russell. Pp. ix + 247. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1927.) 7s. 6d. net.
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R., E. Science and Faith. Nature 121, 448 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121448a0
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