Word: religione
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...proclaimed hippie with a never-settled quest for religious understanding, Philip Clayton—a visiting professor this year at the Harvard Divinity School (HDS)—has spent the past year encouraging the exploration of the delicate balance between the study of science and the study of religion, an interest motivated in part by his own uncertainties of faith...
...religious people for whom religion is no conflict—it’s as obvious as the air you breathe, or your own name, and I was never one of those people,” Clayton says. “It was always an intellectual struggle...
...Science and religion was the field in which that struggle expressed itself,” he added...
...professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences scrapped a proposed “Reason and Faith” requirement from the recently approved College general education requirements, a broader discussion regarding the role of religion in the curriculum has risen, with many lamenting the absence of a forum to explore the interaction between religion and scholarship on campus...
This discussion of the interaction of science and religion stretches beyond academia, says Mark U. Edwards, Jr., associate dean for academic administration at HDS. It enters the public sphere through the debates about intelligent design and stem cell research as well as through bestselling books such as “The God Delusion” by secular scientist Richard Dawkins...