Michael-
I simply am not familiar enough with the situation in Britain to defend point
#3, but that is what Bowler says. However, in my attempt to be concise I
probably gave the impression that 3 was as important as 1,2, and 4. It was
not. Apparently a Free Church and Anglican evangelical opposition did exist,
but it's effect at the time was minimal.
Karl
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Karl V. Evans
cmekve@aol.com
In a message dated 1/11/02 4:14:47 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
topper@robertschirk.u-net.com writes:
<< Thanks Karl for your comments
You wrote;
Bowler deals with the
> reconciliation of science and religion as expressed by liberal Anglicans
> (Modernists) and non-materialist scientists. The reconciliation is
crucially
> dependent on the thesis that both these groups shared a faith in Progress.
> This faith, and the 'second age' of sci/rel dialogue (we're in the third)
> survived World War I but ended for several reasons: 1) the rise of
fascism,
> 2) the Depression and related suffering, 3) evangelical voices from the
free
> churches, and 4) the rise of Barthian neo-orthodoxy with its disdain for
> natural theology.
I would agree with reasons 1,2 and 4 , but 3 is wrong as in Britain the
resurgence of evangelicals came dominantly from Church of England
evangelicals of the post war generation e.g. JRWStott and also the whole
cluster of people including non-Anglicans as FFBRuce, Martin Lloyd Jones
etc.From 1900 to 1950 there was a rump of evangelicals in the Cof E whose
effortw bore fruit after the war. (There werent many evangelicals in the
Anglican Church in Wales as the Welsh Bishops did not like evangelicals and
forced them out after Disestablishment in 1920. One of my bishops while I
was in Wales asked me how I could be associated with Evangelicals as I was a
scientist and didnt take the bible literally and another asked if I actually
believed Pauls Letter to Romans, that was in 1995 and 2000.The numbers of
evangelicals in the Church in wales is increasing mostly by attracting
clergy from England as wooly liberal theology doesnt attact potential
clergy!) There is a false perceptons that Evangelicals are largely to be
found in the Free Churches whereas from 1730 about half of British
evangelicals have been Anglican. It has to be said that only a small
minority Cof E evangelicals
tend to YEC though this does mean that 5% of Cof E clergy lean to YEC.
Regards
Michael
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