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Greek and Christian Science

Emeritus professor Edwin Judge has contributed to developments in the understanding of ancient history and early Christianity. One of his major points is “the social scientific criticism of the New Testament”.

On christianity and science

In a video he argues that while Christianity is often cast as the enemy of science, it has in fact made it possible.

Around 600 BC, the Greek philosophers

The Christian understanding of the world

The modern scientific method, which is empirical testing, is a reaction ‘‘against’’ Greek science. It began from the doctrine of creation: The world is a rational whole, not eternally the same, but an ‘‘objective’’ phenomenon with a beginning, and changing.

Quoting him: “The whole business of testing for truth was explicitly rejected in classical culture as being illogical, irrational. The impact of seeing the physical universe as an objective thing that could be analyzed and explained, for what it actually was, and not what it in principle ought to have been, was very slow in coming. But the slow progress nevertheless represents the takeover of our worldview of the biblical perspective. (..) In spite of the fact that people keep looking back to it as the origin of science. It’s not the origin of science, the book of creation is the origin of science, the book of Genesis.”

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