Can Religion Be Made Scientific?

Abstract

Our modern thought is increasingly dominated by scientific methods. This is as true of theology as it is of biology. The Biblical World believes that religion is afraid of no fact. It further believes that in the search for truth serious attention must be given to working hypotheses. If some of these hypotheses are found to be unworkable, the cause of truth will have been advanced as truly as if they had been thoroughly established. With this conviction in the center of his soul no minister needs to fear anything except falsehood. It is better to be a martyr for the truth than to build up bank accounts on popularized obscurantism. Dr. Foster speaks as a successful pastor and his words ought to bring courage and enthusiasm to all his colleagues in the great work of making known God to the world. For if the God who saves be not the God of the universe, what is the use of trying to worship him? The church answered that question once and for all when it repudiated the pluralistic philosophy of Gnosticism.