Where Science and Religion MeetPalmer, William Scott
Religion
Where Science and Religion Meet
Palmer, William Scott
Religion and science
'Conceiving our life in this manner, the material evolution of the
world becomes the incarnation and the expression of a spiritual meaning,
of a divine event which is actually in process of coming to pass. No
longer, for example, do we think of the earth's movement round the sun
as a meaningless rotation: we think of it as preparing the conditions
which enable life to rise to its sublimest height, we see the whole
creation saturated in sunlight. Not in vain are the heavens starred with
innumerable fires. They speak to us of worlds to which they give life
and being, warming them with their heat, brightening them with their
beams. And the end to which all these lives are moving, of every flower
that blooms, of every bird that sings, is also the central principle of
the entire evolution of the universe—the embodied Word of God. For the
purpose of the whole is nothing other than the incarnation of the
divine, the participation of the created in the eternal life of the
uncreated, of which the God-man is the perfect revelation.... If God be
indeed the end of all existence, he must needs fill all things with his
being. If God is love, his arms are round the entire universe, and there
is no creature anywhere unloved by him.'
PRINCE EUGENE TROUBETZKOY.
APPENDIX
BOOKS ON THE SUBJECTS OF PART I.
B. MOORE. _The Origin and Nature of Life._ (Home University Library).
J. A. THOMSON and P. GEDDES. _Evolution._ (Home University Library).
A. R. HINKS. _Astronomy._ (Home University Library).
R. MELDOLA. _Chemistry._ (Home University Library).
J. WARD. _Heredity and Memory._
OLIVER LODGE. _The Ether of Space._
A. RUHE and N. M. PAUL. _Henri Bergson; An Account of his Life and
Philosophy._
SAMUEL BUTLER. _Life and Habit._
H. BERGSON. _Time and Freewill._
H. BERGSON. _Matter and Memory._
H. BERGSON. _Creative Evolution._
J. WARD. _The Realm of Ends._
H. DRIESCH. _The Science and Philosophy of the Organism._
W. JAMES. _Principles of Psychology._
E. S. RUSSELL. _Form and Function._
A. D. DARBISHIRE. _An Introduction to a Biology._
J. S. HALDANE. _Organism and Environment._
BOOKS ON THE SUBJECTS OF PART II.
T. R. GLOVER. _The Jesus of History._
A. CLUTTON-BROCK. _The Ultimate Belief._
A. CLUTTON-BROCK. _What is the Kingdom of Heaven?_
W. S. PALMER. _Providence and Faith._
W. S. PALMER. _The Ladder of Reality._
WILLIAM LAW. _The Spirit of Love._
WILLIAM LAW. _The Spirit of Prayer._
G. TYRRELL. _Lex Orandi._
G. TYRRELL. _Lex Credendi._ _Faith and Freedom_—(edited by C. H. S.
Matthews).
R. G. COLLINGWOOD. _Religion and Philosophy._
ALEXANDER NAIRNE. _The Epistle of Priesthood._
A. S. PRINGLE-PATTISON. _The Idea of God in the Light of Recent
Philosophy._
FRIEDRICH VON HÜGEL. _Eternal Life._
FRIEDRICH VON HÜGEL. _The Mystical Element of Religion._
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