The Relations between Religion and Science: Eight Lectures Preached before the University of Oxford in the Year 1884 on the Foundation of the Late Rev. John Bampton, M.A.

In 1884 the long-running annual series of Bampton Lectures at the University of Oxford was given by Frederick Temple, at that time Bishop of Exeter. He had earlier been a prominent educational reformer, headmaster at Rugby School and chaplain to Queen Victoria, and he later rose to become Archbishop of Canterbury. This book contains his Bampton Lectures on The Relations between Religion and Science - perhaps the most passionately debated topic of that time. He discusses the apparent conflict between scientific and religious beliefs on various topics including free will, knowledge, evolution, and supernatural power, but concludes that science and religion are not foes, but counterparts, and that neither is complete without the other. His contribution in this area is of lasting importance in the history and philosophy of science. In this 1884 book, Frederick Temple, bishop and educational reformer, discusses the origin and nature of scientific and religious beliefs and the apparent conflicts between the two. He concludes that science and religion are complementary rather than opposed, a view of interest to historians that still resonates today.