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Christian History Magazine—Issue 76: The Christian Face of the Scientific Revolution is unavailable, but you can change that!

Christianity and science have a complex relationship. From the days of Plato, a chasm has existed between faith and scientific inquiry, between the supernatural and natural. But was Plato accurate? Are the things of science and the things of God incompatible? For Copernicus, Galileo, Brahe and Newton, there was only one answer: No. These men were a few among many in the early Modern era who...

“I don’t know what I may seem to the world, but, as to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.” Karl Giberson is a professor of physics at Eastern Nazarene College and editor of Research News and Opportunities in Science and Theology.