Notes

  1. . Andrew Dickson White, A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom, 2 vols. (New York: D. Appleton, 1896).
  2. . Immanuel Kant, “Preface to Second Edition,” in Critique of Pure Reason, trans. Norman Kemp Smith (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1965), B xxx; Friedrich Schleier‐macher, On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers, trans. John Oman (New York:‐Harper & Row, (1958), p. 35.
  3. . Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 2d ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970). Page references given parenthetically in the text refer to this edition.
  4. . Margaret Masterman, “The Nature of a Paradigm,” in Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge, ed. Imre Lakatos and Alan Musgrave (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1970), pp. 59–89.
  5. . Images, as the term is employed here, are not necessarily picturable. In addition to visual images, there are, e.g., conceptual and mathematical images. Picturability is thus a narrower concept than imaginability. See the discussion of picturability in science and religion below.
  6. . Norwood Russell Hanson, Patterns of Discovery: An Inquiry into the Conceptual Foundations of Science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1958), p. 119.
  7. . Ibid., p. 122.
  8. . Ibid., p. 124.
  9. . Wolfhart Pannenberg, Theology and the Philosophy of Science, trans. Francis McDonagh (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1976), pp. 276–96, 299. The translation sometimes erroneously has “positivism” instead of “positivity.”
  10. . Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 1st ed. (Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr Paul Siebec], 1913), s.v. “Positiv.”
  11. . Antony Flew et al., “Theology and Falsification,” in New Essays in Philosophical Theology, ed. Antony Flew and Alasdair MacIntyre (London: S. C. M. Press, 1955), pp. 96–130.
  12. . Cf. Kuhn, pp. 146–48.
  13. . Cf. Kai Nielsen, “Wittgensteinian Fideism,” Philosophy 42 (1967): 191–209, and the reply by D. Z Phillips, “Religious Beliefs and Language‐Games,” in The Philosophy of Religion, ed. Basil Mitchell (London: Oxford University Press, 1971), pp. 121–42.
  14. . H. Richard Niebuhr, The Meaning of Revelation (New York: Macmillan Co., 1941), p. 108.