Ralph Wendell Burhoe: His Life and His Thought: I. Perceiving the Problem and Envisioning its Solution, 1911–1954

Abstract. This is the first of four installments by the author, presenting an intellectual biography of Ralph Wendell Burhoe. This first segment follows Burhoe from his college years at Harvard through the founding of the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science in 1954. In this period, after his...

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Published in:Zygon
Main Author: Breed, David R. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 1990
In: Zygon
Further subjects:B Institute on Religion in an Age of Science
B Coming Great Church
B American Academy
B Science
B Religion
B Burhoe
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Summary:Abstract. This is the first of four installments by the author, presenting an intellectual biography of Ralph Wendell Burhoe. This first segment follows Burhoe from his college years at Harvard through the founding of the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science in 1954. In this period, after his college and seminary study, Burhoe worked at Harvard's Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory and as executive officer of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Throughout his early life he had been concerned with how religion could maintain its credibility as a bearer of truth vis-à-vis the sciences, which were displacing religion not only among leading intellectuals, but also in other segments of society. The founding of IRAS provided an important instrument for dealing with this concern.
ISSN:1467-9744
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Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1990.tb00796.x