SCIENCE AND THEOLOGY.
Sir,—Dr. Giles is right in holding that theology should be required to produce the facts, or reasons, on which it relies. These reasons are stated in every great theological work. Theology claims-- to be a science; but is not one of the physical sciences. It has contacts with the physical sciences, but deals mainly with religious experience, which is not invalidated by the fact that it cannot be weighed and measured by physical science. We have a right to demand that theology shall be founded on reason, but it is unreasonable to expect it to seek for its foundations in any other science. It should be amenable to "scientific procedure," if by that is meant the application of reason to experience. Each science has its own appropriate procedure.
Norman Bueton
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20405, 6 November 1929, Page 14
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