Multiple ISCAST reviews of Nicholas Spencer’s Magisteria have praised its balanced take on the history of science and religion.
Here, Frank Nicholas offers an extended reflection on the issues raised in the book. He encourages us to accept “two irreconcilable truths” instead of claiming there is harmony between them.
Here I offer some reflections on some of the issues raised in Magisteria.
Despite the book’s dustjacket declaring in bold uppercase, “THE SO-CALLED WAR BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION IS A MYTH,” Spencer actually takes a far more nuanced approach (as Jones and Harper mention in their reviews). Indeed, Spencer aims to show that “The ‘magisteria’ of science and religion are indistinct, sprawling, untidy and endlessly and fascinatingly entangled.”
Read Frank Nicholas’s full paper in CPOSAT here. You can also read earlier reviews of Magisteria from Ian Harper, D. Gareth Jones and James C. Ungureanu.
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