The Realist Guide to Religion and Science by Paul Robinson

• Authors: Welter Brian
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper is a review of the book: Paul Robinson, The Realist Guide to Religion and Science (Leominster, Herefordshire, UK: Gracewing, 2018). According to the author, what makes the book both accessible and sensible is Robinson’s illustration of Thomist philosophy’s coherence, starting from a basis in philosophy of being. Robinson presents the philosophy of being as being appropriate to cooperate with science. This helps readers comprehend modern science’s wrong turns and possible corrections. This also makes Robinson’s book a work of apologetics, as it addresses why the Catholic faith provides the most logical belief system, and why seemingly sophisticated attacks on the Church and its beliefs by seemingly rational philosophers and scientists are not only erroneous, but actually irrational.

Keywords

EN

Paul Robinson; religion; Catholicism; science; Thomism; realism; scientism; secularism; idealism; empiricism

• Publisher: International Étienne Gilson Society
• Journal: Studia Gilsoniana
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 195-202

Dates

published

2019-03-20

Contributors

author

Welter Brian

References

• Robinson, Paul. The Realist Guide to Religion and Science. Leominster, Herefordshire, UK: Gracewing, 2018.

Identifiers

ISSN

2577-0314

ISSN

2300-0066

DOI

10.26385/SG.080109