Notes

  1. . “His work, De principiis [was] the first attempt to construct a system of dog matics” (Reinhold Seeberg, Text‐Book of the History of Doctrines, trans. Charles E. Hay, 2 vols. [Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Book House, 19541, 1:146). “Origen's dogmatic work Iiepl Apxv, which has been preserved in a Latin translation entitled De Principiis (4 vols.) … was the first attempt to present a comprehensive system of Christian doctrine by founding it on the Scripture and the Apostolic tradition, and then building it up with the philosophical knowledge of the age” (J. L. Neve, A History of Christian Thought, 2 vols. [Philadelphia: Muhlenberg Press, 1946], 1:83).
  2. . “The great achievement of Thomas Aquinas was setting forth the relation of reason and faith in such fashion that those to whom the Aristotelian philosophy was definitive could feel that they might consistently remain Christians” (Kenneth Scott Latourette, A History of Christianity [London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. n.d.], p. 510).
  3. . Hugh Ross Mackintosh, Types of Modern Theology: Schleiermacher to Barth (London: Nisbet & Co., 1937), pp. 60–63; Friedrich Schleiermacher, The Christian Faith (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1928), p. 123.
  4. . Paul Tillich, Systematic Theology (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951), 1:60.
  5. . Stow Persons, Free Religion (Boston: Beacon Press, 1947), p. 37. Cf. Francis Ellingwood Abbot, Scientific Theism (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1888).
  6. . Donald SzanthoHarrington, “Science and the Search for a Rational Religious Faith,” Zygon  1, no. 1 (March 1966):98.
  7. . Richard von Mises, Positivism: A Study in Human Understanding (New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1956), pp. 69–79.
  8. . ClydeKluckhohn, “The Scientific Study of Values and Contemporary CivilizationProceedings of the American Philosophical Society  102, no. 5 (October 1958): 872–76; this article was reprinted in Zygon 1. no. 3 (September 1966):230–243.
  9. . Henry Nelson Wieman, The Wrestle of Religion with Truth (New York: Macmillan Co., 1927), pp. 148 ff.; Henry Nelson Wieman, The Source of Human Good (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1947), pp. 49–50, 304–9.
  10. . Alfred E.Emerson, “Dynamic Homeostasis: A Unifying Principle in Organic, Social, and Ethical Evolution”, Zygon  3, no. 2 (1968): 129–68.