Article: Nature Lost? Natural Science and the German Theological Traditions of the Nineteenth Century.(Brief Article)

To the modern mind theology and natural science are incommensurable. That is not a vogue word but was actually used over a century ago by theologian Wilhelm Herrmann. Herrmann was a follower of Albrecht Ritschl, and in this book represents what Frederick Gregory labels the existential critique of religion and science since the late nineteenth century. The question mark in the title of Gregory's book does not actually refer to a discussion between nineteenth-century German theologians about the status of nature within theology, but indicates the author's challenging the wisdom of that still dominant academic theology, as formulated by Barth, Bultmann, Tillich, and others, ...

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