Abstract
DURING the recent Church Congress at Southport, one day was largely engaged with discussion on the ‘religion and science’ issue. The most notable utterances were a sermon by Dr. Lang, the Archbishop of York, and a paper written by the late Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool, the distinguished pathologist Dr. Adami, whose recent death was a grave loss to medical science. Dr. Lang directed attention to the change of outlook in contemporary science, which “is beginning to ask questions about fundamental presuppositions hitherto taken for granted, about the meaning of the universe as a whole.” Science, in other words, seems to be becoming more philosophical. The Archbishop then made a strong plea that this new orientation in science should be met, on the part of the Church, by. “an attitude of the fullest sympathy and trust.” “The Church will not merely be detached. Its members will be ready to accept whatever truths in the region of natural science or historical criticism seem to be really established, and to welcome them as new revelations of the divine working.” This must rank as a really significant utterance, and, if it speaks for the Church of England as a whole, is a most hopeful sign of the times.
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