How the philosophy of science changed religion at nineteenth-century Harvard

Zygon 43 (3):639-650 (2008)
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Nineteenth-century Harvard faculty and students looked to philosophical ideas about the proper and effective study of nature as the model of rationality to which their religion must conform. As these ideas changed, notions of rationality changed and so did Harvard religion.

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10.1111/j.1467-9744.2008.00945.x

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