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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Science and the Church (12521 words) |
 | Church, in connexion with science, theoretically means any Church that claims authority in matters of doctrine and teaching; practically, however, only the Catholic Church is in question, on account of her universality and her claim of power to exercise this authority. |
| The greatest obstacle to anti-Christian science is the Church, which claims Divine origin, authority to teach infallible truth, maintains the inspiration of Scripture, and is confident of her own existence to the end of the world. |
| The domination of the Church in the Middle Ages and its influence upon the progress of science is a subject that required a different mind from that of a chemist or physicist. |
| A Non-Dialogue on the Two Great World Systems (3447 words) |
| Science can be used in many ways: as the body of accumulated knowledge about the world, as the method of interplay between theory and experiment, as the whole social enterprise that applies one of these to add to the other. |
| Because the institution that we recognize as science took root in Europe and its cultural offspring, the encounters between science and religion have historically involved Christianity. |
| The science has proven mantra seems to issue more from apologists for science, as a kind of religion in itself: a view that claims for the scientific method a scope and implications that are by nature beyond its reach. |
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